UNITED STATES v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Civ. A. No. 75-1610.

445 F.Supp. 1094 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, and South Carolina Educational Association, the National Educational Association of the United States, Nathaniel Brown, Eunice Doe, Willie Edney, Roberta F. Hill, Anita P. Hunter, David Lawrence, Edward Pinckney, Adolph Simmons, Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, South Carolina State Board of Education, South Carolina State Retirement System, South Carolina Budget and Control Board, Charleston County Board of Education, Colleton County Board of Education, Richland District No. 1 Board of Education, on behalf of themselves and all other Boards of Education of similarly situated Public School Districts, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

Judgment Affirmed January 16, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark W. Buyck, Jr., Columbia, S. C., Edward H. Levi, Atty. Gen., Drew S. Days, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Alexander C. Ross, Thomas M. Keeling, Bruce L. Downey, Louis M. Stewart, Therese Obringer, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Craig K. Davis, Columbia, S. C., Richard M. Sharp, Washington, D. C., David Rubin, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Daniel R. McLeod, C. Tolbert Goolsby, Jr., John L. Choate, Hardwick Stuart, Jr., Columbia, S. C., for State of South Carolina, S. C. Board of Education, S. C. Retirement System, S. C. Budget & Control Board.

George S. King, Jr., Columbia, S. C., for Richland Dist. No. 1.

Isadore Bogoslow, Walterboro, S. C., for Colleton County Board of Ed.

Augustine T. Smythe, Charleston, S. C., for Charleston County School Dist.

Howard P. Willens, Deanne C. Siemer, Theodore S. Sims, Washington, D. C., John S. Kramer, Gen. Counsel, Educational Testing Serv., Princeton, N. J., for Amicus Curiae—Educational Testing Service.

Wyche, Burgess, Freeman & Parham, Greenville, S. C., local counsel.

Kenneth L. Childs, Randall T. Bell, Columbia, S. C., Constangy, Brooks & Smith, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants.

Before HAYNSWORTH and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges and SIMONS, District Judge.


Judgment Affirmed January 16, 1978. See 98 S.Ct. 756.

ORDER

This is a decision in a bifurcated trial before a three-judge court. Pursuant to a prior Order of the court, only issues of constitutional and federal law with respect to liability were considered at the first three-judge hearing. Procedural issues with respect to the alleged plaintiff class and all issues with respect to the availability or amount of damages were reserved for later determination...

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