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ALLEN v. ALABAMA STATE BD. OF EDUC.

Civ. A. No. 81-697-N.

612 F.Supp. 1046 (1985)

Margaret T. ALLEN, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, Board of Trustees for Alabama State University; and Eria P. Smith, Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. The ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, N.D.

July 3, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald V. Watkins, Watkins, Carter & Knight, Montgomery, Ala., James U. Blacksher, Gregory B. Stein, Blacksher, Menefee & Stein, Mobile, Ala., Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Terry G. Davis, Seay & Davis, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Charles Coody, Gen. Counsel, State Bd. of Educ., T.W. Thagard, Jr., David Boyd, Balch & Bingham, Montgomery, Ala., for Alabama State Bd. of Educ., Tyson, Creel, Cherry, Higginbotham, Poole, Martin, Allen, Roberts and Teague.

Algert Agricola, Patrick Robinson, Rosa Davis, Asst. Attys. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for Bd. of Educ. and Teague.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

The plaintiffs and plaintiff-intervenors, four black teachers and a predominantly black state university, have brought this class-action lawsuit charging, among other things, that the State of Alabama's teacher certification tests impermissibly discriminate against black persons seeking state certification. The defendants are the Board of Education for the State of Alabama, its members, and the State...

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