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JAMES v. WEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF REGENTS

Civ. A. No. 1159.

322 F.Supp. 217 (1971)

Edgar JAMES, Plaintiff, v. WEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF REGENTS, a Statutory Corporation, Successor to the West Virginia Board of Education; Wendell G. Hardway, President of Bluefield State College, a State Supported Institution of Higher Learning; Dr. Gordon Short, Director of Placement of Student Teachers at Bluefield State College; and the Board of Education of Mercer County, a Statutory Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. West Virginia, Bluefield Division.

January 13, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brown H. Payne, Beckley, W. Va., Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, Conrad K. Harper, New York City, Clarence C. Malone, Jr., Durham, N. C., for plaintiff.

Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., Atty. Gen. of West Virginia, Cletus B. Hanley, Deputy Atty. Gen. of West Virginia, Joseph G. Hodgson, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of West Virginia, Charleston, W. Va., for defendants West Virginia Board of Regents, Wendell G. Hardway and Dr. Gordon Short.

Joseph M. Sanders, Sanders & Blue, Bluefield, W. Va., for defendant Board of Education of Mercer County.

CHRISTIE, District Judge:

This case involves an action brought pursuant to the provisions of 42 U.S. C.A. §§ 1983 and 1985, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1343, and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, wherein the plaintiff seeks to vindicate his right to do student practice teaching in the public schools of Mercer County, West Virginia, and to recover compensatory and punitive damages from the defendants for depriving him of...

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