GOSS v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE

No. 217.

371 U.S. 811 (1962)

GOSS ET AL. v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

October 8, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III, Carl A. Cowan and Z. Alexander Looby for petitioners. S. Frank Fowler and K. Harlan Dodson, Jr. for respondents.


The petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is granted limited to Question 1 presented by the petition, which reads as follows:

"Whether petitioners, Negro school children seeking desegregation of the public school systems of Knoxville, Tennessee (Goss case), and Davidson County, Tennessee (Maxwell case), are deprived of rights under the Fourteenth Amendment by judicial approval of a provision in desegregation plans...

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