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WHITFIELD v. SIMPSON

Civ. No. 69-138.

312 F.Supp. 889 (1970)

Marquitta WHITFIELD, a minor, by her Mother and next friend, Geneva Whitfield, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. J. R. SIMPSON et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Illinois.

April 22, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Lansden, Cairo, Ill., Martha M. Jenkins, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Cairo, Ill., Lawrence D. Ross, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs.

John G. Holland and George J. Kiriakos, Cairo, Ill., for defendants.

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen. of State of Illinois, John R. Morrow, and Robert Dodd, Asst. Attys. Gen., of counsel, for Richard B. Ogilvie, Governor of State of Illinois, and William J. Scott, Atty. Gen. of State of Illinois.

Before CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge, and JUERGENS and WISE, District Judges.

JUERGENS, District Judge.

This suit is brought by plaintiffs to declare unconstitutional on its face and as applied and to enjoin the enforcement of Chapter 122, Section 10-22.6, Illinois Revised Statutes, and to order plaintiff Marquitta Whitfield reinstated as a student at Cairo High School. The suit is on plaintiff's behalf and on behalf of all other students in Cairo High School who have allegedly been or will be denied their right to due process of law under...

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