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HOOTS v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

Civ. A. No. 71-538.

359 F.Supp. 807 (1973)

Dorothy HOOTS, Individually and as mother of her children Janelle Hoots and Jamie Hoots, et al., Plaintiffs, v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.

May 15, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Stanton Wettick, Jr., Neighborhood Legal Services, Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Burton Morris, Deputy Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., Alfred C. Maiello, Thomas M. Rutter, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendants.

OPINION

WEBER, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

This is a suit under the federal Civil Rights Act in which plaintiffs, as representatives of a class, allege that residents of the Borough of Braddock, North Braddock and Rankin, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, have been deprived of rights, privileges and immunities guaranteed them by the laws and Constitution of the United States by being forced to attend and send their children to a racially segregated...

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