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BURLESON v. COUNTY BD. OF ELECTION COM'RS OF JEFFERSON CO.

No. PB-69-C-65.

308 F.Supp. 352 (1970)

William BURLESON, Father of Billy Wayne, Jimmy, and John Burleson et al., Plaintiffs, v. COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY et al., Defendants, Frank M. Shue, Jr., et al., Intervenors.

United States District Court E. D. Arkansas, Pine Bluff Division.

January 22, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack L. Lessenberry, Little Rock, Ark., for plaintiffs.

Robert V. Light, Little Rock, Ark., R. A. Eilbott, Jr., George Howard, Jr., Pine Bluff, Ark., for defendants.

Bert N. Darrow, Little Rock, Ark., for intervenors.

Memorandum Opinion

HENLEY, Chief Judge.

This cause, which has been tried to the Court, presents the question of whether white inhabitants of a geographically isolated portion of an Arkansas public school district faced with an obligation to integrate its schools may validly employ the Arkansas school and election laws so as to secede from the parent district and establish an autonomous district of their own. The case seems to be one of first impression....

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