TURNER v. DIERKS SCHOOL DIST.

No. 91-4130.

782 F.Supp. 81 (1992)

Jimmy Lynn TURNER, Plaintiff, v. DIERKS SCHOOL DISTRICT, a Body Corporate; Gene Simmons, Wayne Kesterson, Mike Moore, Hershel Eudy, and Jerry Mounts, as Board Members of the Dierks School Board, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Arkansas, Texarkana Division.

January 23, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darrell F. Brown, Little Rock, Ark., David O. Bowden, Alexander, Ark., for plaintiff.

Alfred F. Angulo, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, District Judge.

Plaintiff has sued the Dierks School Board under two legal theories. First, plaintiff complains, citing 42 U.S.C. § 1983, that his vote in at-large school board elections has been diluted in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Second, he asserts that the school board has violated Arkansas law in failing to institute zone districts to replace the current at-large...

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