Opinion

Blakeney v. Fairfax County School Board

  • 334 F.2d 239
Court
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Filed
Jun 23, 1964
Status
Published
Cited by
3 cases
Authority
More cited than 80.5%

The opinion

PER CURIAM:

Upon consideration of the briefs and arguments of counsel and the history of litigation involving the School Board of Fairfax County, we are of the view that the injunction to prohibit a system of segregated schools, prayed for by the five appellants, should have been granted.

Counsel for appellants tendered for the first time in this court a motion for intervention on behalf of 49 additional pupils. Not doubting our authority in appropriate circumstances to grant such a motion under the All Writs Statute, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1651 , and Rule 62(g) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, we decline to grant the motion on this appeal. In the circumstances there is-no necessity for us to entertain the motion. We are satisfied that if the plaintiffs will at once file their motion in the District Court, the court will grant the-same and will cooperate with the parties by holding a hearing within 15 days, thereafter, and decide the case within 10-days after the hearing. In such hearing the court will have available and may consider the record in the District Court case of Lawrence Edward Blackwell, et al. v. Fairfax County School Board, et al., Civil No. 1967, E.D.Va., September 22, 1960.

If the District Court finds that the facts support the intervenors’ allegations, it will grant relief to such inter-venors as have been discriminated, against. The matter can thus be determined with finality in time for the opening of the school term in September.

Vacated and remanded.

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