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KIRSTEIN v. RECTOR AND VISITORS OF UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Civ. No. 220-69.

309 F.Supp. 184 (1970)

Mrs. Jo Anne KIRSTEIN, Miss Virginia Anne Scott, Miss Nancy L. Anderson, Mrs. Nancy Jaffe, and United States National Student Association, Plaintiffs, v. The RECTOR AND VISITORS OF the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, etc., The Honorable Mills E. Godwin, Dr. Woodrow W. Wilkerson, Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., Ernest H. Ern, and State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

Decided February 9, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Nussbaum, Surrey, Karasik, Gould & Greene, Washington, D. C., John C. Lowe, Charlottesville, Va., and Philip J. Hirschkop, Alexandria, Va., for plaintiffs.

Robert Y. Button, Atty. Gen. of Virginia, Richard N. Harris, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Virginia, and James H. Michael, Jr., Michael & Dent, Charlottesville, Va., for defendants.

Before CRAVEN, Circuit Judge, and MacKENZIE and MERHIGE, District Judges.

CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

This is a suit brought by four young women to compel their admission to the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. It is also brought as a class action for the benefit of other persons similarly situated. All of the individual defendants, except the Governor and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, are officers and trustees of the University of Virginia...

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