# Amicus Curiae Brief — Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education

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## Record

- **Collection:** Supreme Court brief
- **Document type:** Amicus Curiae Brief
- **Published:** January 1, 1969
- **Citation:** 396 U.S. 976

## Text

"MOTION FILFD | |
OCT 17 1969 LES ro4n ®

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| Supreme Court of the United States

O-roper Teem. 1960
No. 6B

BeATMICE ALPNANDEI, fr At. Petitioners:
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HoumMes Country Bown on pes VHION, BY AL,

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On Writ of Ceriiorari to the United States Court of Appeals:
ee _ for the Fitth Circuit .

MOTION FOR LEAVF TO FILF BRIEF AMICUS CURIAE
AND-FOR IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION THEREOF
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BRIEF AMICUS CURIAF “OR
THE NATIONAL EDUCATION AS. >7IATION

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TABLE OF- CONTENTS

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Moros ror Leave To Eine Brier Amicus CURIE AND
row IM MEDIATE CONSIDERATION “TaekKor

ae BeCn CUMIAR .. 3S... ace ee Sewage as Ae Pees l

I. Interest of the National Education Association 1

MH. Summary ofthe Arguments..0.000.00...0.... 2
HEL. Argument 0000 5 as EO St 3

A. Segregated Education Results ir Knormous
and Irreparable’ Injury to Black Children

B. The Considerations Relied Upon by the Gov
ernment and the Court Below Do Not Justit'y

Delay in Deseeration eter eae iF
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IV. Conclusion are | ie 12

TABLE OF AU TILORUPLES
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Brown ov. Board of ‘Mdueation, S47, US. 488. 494

— (1954) . | ie | ae
United States vo Hinds County School Board, r. 2d-
» Doeket Nos. 28080 and 28042" August’ 28) 1969,

* oshp opinion at .o° ee oo ay |
United States vo Jefferson County Board of Kdueation |’
S80 2d SSO (oth Cir.) (en bane), cert. denied

389 -U.8..840 (1967) ©. 2... ....:. F
STATUTES! ’. «- -
Tithe 42 U.S.C. Seetion 200061 0... a f

Mlementary and Secondary Education Net of les ¢

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(Pe tinn AL PHOMETIRG |

National -Bdueation Association, (‘omtiission On Pre
fessional | Rights, and Responsibilitios, Wado.

(County. Alabama: A Ntudy of Noowdl. & rer tte
un! Bdwcational Bankruptey *.

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Lniteal States Conumission on ¢ Wel Wiwhis, Rue
tsolation om the Public Schools

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Lramscriupt of Hearing ww Mismt gone iy. tlhadcarie

United Stat » Dopaartunenet of thealth, Budueas ch, otted
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(ithe af Mialucution, Byucdlety ae! | ¢ 6
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I, ‘oe vs) Report mai C'swal Ry pares

IN THE
Supreme Court of the United States

OcTOBER TERM, 1969

* Brarnick ALEXANDER, ET AL., Petitioners,
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Hommes Counry Boarp or Epucarion, ET AL,
| Respondents.

On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of meen
for the Fifth Circuit

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MOTION F OR LEAVE TO FILE BRIEF AMICUS
CURIAE AND FOR IMMEDIATE
CONSIDERATION THEREOF

‘Lhe National Edue; ation Association hereby moves,
pursuant to Rule 4203) of the Rules of this Court,
for Joave to file the attached brief amieus euriae in

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the above-entitled cause. Petitioners and respondent
United States of America have consented to the filing’
Consent has been denied by the respondent schooi
hoards. Beeause of. the expedited schedule that has
been established by the Court in this case, movant
requests immediate consideration of this motion, with-
out awaiting the receipt of written opposition by the -
respondent school boards, so that*the attached: brief
may be considered along with the other br iefs that
will he filed before argument. |

The Nations! Education Association ('the Associa-
tion’’) is an independent, voluntary organization, of
educators open to all professional teachers, supervisors
and administrators. It presently has over one anillion
regular members, and is the largest professional organi-
zation wr the world. The Association was first or-
ganized in 1857%nd was chartered by a special act
of Coes in 1906.. Its statutory purpose is

Pe clevate the character and advatice the in-
terests of the profession ofteaching and to promote
the cause of education in the United States.

Overall, poligies of the Association are determined
hy its: Representative Assembly, a body composed of
approximately 7,000 delegates representing affiliated
local and state education associations... The Associa-
tion has long been committed to the .principle that
racial segregation in education adversely affects the
quality of the education received by both black and
white students. It has eonducted detailed studies of
the edueational implications of the maintenance of

'The written consent of these parties has been filed with! the
Clerk.’ .

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dual segregated school systems. At its June, 1969
Convention, the Representative Assembly adopted a
formal resolution urging adherence by the Federal gov-

ernment to the established timetable for complete de- ’

segregation of Southern scliool districts. The resolu-
tion instructed the officers and staff of the Association
“to exert every effort*to reestablish the Deemer, 1969
deadline for full compliance.”

It has lone heen settled that the complete disestab-
lishment of formerly de jure segregated school sys-
“tems is required under coustitutional mandates. The
issue before the Court in this case does not so much
concern legal requirements, but rather educational rea-
sons purportedly justifying a further delay in the im-
plementation of those requirements. - While movant
fully supports the position of the petitioners that there
are no acceptable reasons justifying further delay in
school desegregation, it, as the principal association
of educators in this country, is particularly well
equipped to inform the Court as to the substance, or
lack thereof, of the non-legal justific ations for delay
on which the court below, the Government and the
respondent school boards have ‘relied

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Accordingly: the National Kdueation Association re-
spectfully requests that this Court grant leave to file
the attached brief amicus curiae, without waiting for
the receipt of papers in opposition, and that the Court

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“The National Education Association and its state associations —

have participated as amicus curiae in other major proceedings
involving issues of education and race ASee Smuck vy. Hobson, 408
KP 175 (D.C. Cir. 1969): Lee vy. Yeon County Board of Educa-
tion, 283 F.Supp. B94 (M.D. Alaf 1968). |

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consider said brief together with the briefs of the
parties, and with the other papers in the case.

~_Rspectfully submitted,

| Ricuarp ‘B. Sozor.
: 1823 Jefferson Plage, N. W.:
Washington, D. C.- 20036 _

Davip Rusin | |
1201 16th Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C. 20036

Attorneys for Amicus
Curiae, National Educa-
tion Association
Of Counsel:
Ricuarp T. SEyMour
1823 Jefferson Place; N. W.
_ Washington, D. C. 20086 °

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October 17, 1969

IN THE

: Supreme Court of the United States

OcTOBER ‘TERM, 1969

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No. 632

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SEATRICE ALEXANDER, ET AL., Petitioners,
v.

HloLMES County Boarp or Epucation, Er AL.,
ia Respondents.

On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals
for the Fifth Circuit

BRIEF AMICUS CURIAE FOR
THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

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INTEREST OF THE NATIONAL
EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

© The National Education Association is an-independ-

ent, voluntary organization of professional educators.

It has over one million members, including teachers,
supervisors, and administrators. As‘stated in the As-

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soclation-Charter, its purpose is ‘to elevate the charae-
ter and advance the interests of the profession of teach-
ing and to promote the cause of education in the United
States."’ Both the Association and its members have a

deep interest in the quality of education received hy the

children of all races. For this reason, it has conducted
investigations of the problems of race and education in
the school systems of Wileox County, Alabama, Balti-
more, Maryland, Hyde County, North Carolina, and
Detroit, Michigan. For this reason also, it has actively
supported litigation in.numereus schoo! desegregation
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‘ases,

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SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT

Segregated education imposes enormous and -irrep-
arable injury on black children, Hirst, there is the psyv-
chological damage to the black-student, recognized liv
this Court in 1954, flowing from. official maintenance of
separate black schools. Seeond, it is established that
black children, particularly in the South, are substan
tially less able to learn-in an environment of racial
isolation than in an integrated educational septing,
Third, some school districts across the South still pro-
vide facilities for black students that are marked
inferior to those provided for whites, thus further
reducing the quality of the ede ay afforded black
children.

The disastrous consequences of racial segregation in
education have been established and accepted for many
years, but the judicial attitude toward the question of
speed of desegregation has often failed to cousider that

these consequences are acertiing daily angl cannot. be
reversed. A vear’s delay means that tens of thousands
of bhick school children Will endure another irremootount

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segment of their edacation in racial isolation: nan of
these children will complete -their, education during
; that period. It is time that the question of delay be put
nh these human terms. The National Education Asso-
elation believes that ucither administrative Ineouven-
lenee, hora general warning of ‘tchaos, contusion,
wd a catastrophic educational setback’? justified the
delay granted in these eases, The administrative ineon
venience in the immediate implenientation of desegre
gation plans-is, in the opinion of the Association, resid:
iy surmountable, Considerations of the qaality. of
. edueation call for speed, het tor delay.

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ARGUMENT

A. Dearianied Education Results in Enormous and Irreparable
Injury to Black Children

In 154, this Court recognized that the fact of offi
ehully-sponsored segregation, without more, enuses seri-

ous pisychologieal damage te children in elementary
and secondary schools: ;

. ‘To separate them from others of similar age and
quialitiesttions solely beeause of ther reaee wenerates
a teeling.of inferiority as to their status in the
-commmiunity thet may atfect their hearts and minds
Ina way unlikely ever to be undone,

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The isolation of black students from: other children
with varving backgrounds and aspirations is injurious

In another respect. ‘Phe ‘United States Office of Edu
eation, in an official report based on a nationwide Sir.

vey, found that ‘the aehievement of minority: group

Diracaum f Inereases” Mh proportion te the level of tthe

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‘quality’ between black-attended and wi

, 200 TNE), Comeress directed that’this studs de made - \p

educational aspirations and backgrounds of fellow stu-
dents Sy oe . -

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It is those Negroes who are in the South ‘whose

achievetuent appears to vary midst greathy: with
variations in the characteristics of their fellow
students. Here, where the most oduct “aitionally ais
_ indvantaged barkgrounds are found, and where
achievement is lowest, is Where student body char
weteristies ‘make most’ differences’ for Ne “rie
Achievement. [is in these more/stabile, less urban
areas Where exposure to children of different edu

cational backgrounds has in the past been least

possible for Negro children. :

ly hene tinnlingrs are corroborated by ithe United St: ‘tLt's
Conmuission on Civil Rights, Whieh coneluded that ‘the
effects of racial composition of se hools are ciimuledive,
The longer Negra students are in desegregated schools,
the better is their académic achievement... Corr
versely, there it a growing de tieit for Negroes Whi re
natin in racially isolated! se hools.?

A third major catise of edie ational hary fo ehilitre Mn

attending all-black-schools ix Re continued isparity in
Me attended

—— inthe South, Por example, the Conmityission on
Civil Rights found that, in a sixteen-county\ area of
Alabania, whit™attended school Hartlelinnges andl their

7 (Mice of Educition, United States Department of Henlt
catwonanmd Welfare, Equality of Bdiagtional Opportunity «
at 302 In ate: 402 of the Civil Rights Vet or 1968, 1 1 S0\ so

‘hi at woos . -_ ..

“Racial lsolation in the Public Schools VOGT) at 204 Finda

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only S2ZS83.00 per pupik ‘The National Eduegrion As

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of the Wileox County, Aladin short systonn

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ss ert it Vara )¢ winnie Oger font geetitat isa? ade islet that
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The Oni “° ‘of. Kalu ation curve y established that the ,
«palit of the education: al fie ility hits oo stronger effect *
on the aehievement of disadvantaced stindents thon st

“lies on the ae hie Verment of stteleruts from Hione duly,
tysel bckaeronneds, Ir jilsersVoutsl that the ay Lita eet
fli’ Paeibite was Wiest nipert int for Neutoes tr th

Souths, | ‘

Sinee carly 1967, almost every school deteiet ime the

2 Rift Crrenit: desesregatinig’ tik court order ba
Drcrerny werdered te eqtalize the Caeulities oat a Ti vee!
Couitegd Slates Vv. Je therson County Roard of hiluen
fron, 1 bo pad | “pals Oth Cin (iu hitne ) cert. dented
GS TUS SHO PGT), but without clscernible effees
Pir thee sytem af the As oGiation, the Only praetieat
procedure Por the ebliitiation ot the qinilitatiye tithes

wnees in black ati) White sehoots 4 complete iitiegra

feet "i :

ys hese three ‘se Perate phetetiena combine te pivots
Trreriediable © dhucationak havi, ‘Uhis ace valine for this
Mie vl Pidivecation Survesa, be thee riural South bokinerks
~thiudent- midhe th rik Are an Vette of Go rrineles ”

boebitomd white steelent. ter. eeocdiee Compre bie tye teen

B. The Considerations Helied Upon by the Governimont-and the
* Court Below Do Not Justity Delay in Desegregation

Phe et Peete cel thie ‘eoourt tne Leow, sat pre bel itiy ihe combi
thi ulite that townie il li “aera ctl pl ittg: be bape
tietitesdt thi. Fe alt, wa prem vl chbingts gene cane Nuiiruist -
VO, PO better rut hi by the re retary of the dh punt ¢

. COitiow asf Tagernt gente | ib wd s ‘a ely riaiei t tf thea “Hal .
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mentoat Health) Mdtcation cmd Welfare, scek ung say i
a heli. hii his letter, Seovebars Minch deserted that the
plans submitted by the Offiee of bdo dtions pursaint to,
the daly Ged diandate of the Court of Appeats, wer

| dhevedapedl Without delegate tithe ted thats tha iripile
tetitation an the terribly Short space of Gimme remiuan|

inne’ preseniod *aduiieetrative and liistieal bifticns!
ties whieh eGutd not be ret wathoat prodietag ehac
combustor ctl esate Lrarpehis ‘

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the Sex PeLany, Moteover, thes rut aliveethy cottitien t
all previo eNpresstafie of the besceutive Pranebe on
the issaie:. Breas eviline tothe requested delay, theS@souet
of Appeals noted that the Ciovertamont tial prepased
a ahlore rigid Jimetable than Chace vstabl breed hay Lhe
Compt in its aby) 1960 deeision oe oo

(estrous Were spre heady Ghineetedk te thee Neevet

ait Mtornes General ippearig on behalf of Me
Cioverntiedt Worthen QUT hotk 1th resp”
Oe ee et Pk heCattiemiedd the Giev cnn bit
view Tet the timetable props bay thie Qhoveen
Hint Wie Pecdecnahle - Vii he atlivareedk tdi
ifflekene Peseiteae al ‘the | eeeutive 1) \) Whitmer
Wartthd Aa bisctalys ov inthatel tee aetneatels thi ilies ‘of
bibitetton Gof the | TiitedaS tah Phopecetient of
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(ed the REEEEAIEY to consider changes in eurrien-
Jumna;:
Cd) the necessity to effeet plysieal changes im class-
roots, lavatories and other facilities:
(eo) the necessity te reassign seme teachers
Of) the necessity to reconsider the expenditure of.
federal funds available under the Elementary
and Secondary Education Aet of 1965.'"

The only ad litt onl points In justifieation for delay
were references to the dedygability of conditioning
tecehers, students and the eoriununity tthe strains of
chool desegregation.” :

Vhe National Ednueation. Association does uot believe
thiat any of these reasons; or the combination of them,
noe sueh educational or administrative prob Nenis as to
pistify: further delay in des segregation. birst. wheat
ever TaAV he the faet in large, complicated school s\'s
tems, the asserted considerations have litte relevance
her smal] distriets operating only a few schools. Yet
vers stall system”! were limped together with larger
distiqets on the comnom assertions of ditfienlty.

Second, for even the largest ss stems invelved here,
he we serted diffientties are nat sufficitnth significant
te justify delay,

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Amony the eases at bar, the Aneuilla Line ¢ onsalidated Sehool
}) tried hits cada three schools. the Canton \ thieipal Separate
bevel DDistriet bras ail four sehools, amd the Wialkinmsons vuartt:
ind the North Pike Counts Consolidated Sehool- District. have

! ic footy chools ‘piece

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Publicity for new, school zone boundaries en
be accomplished by a notice in ai local news-
paper and, to the extent necessary, by redirecting
persons who report ade wrong school on open-
ing day. .

Drawing up school bus routes in an intewrated
school system is far‘less complicated than the
planning of school bus routes under a freeddin
of-choice plan, and can normally be accom
plished ina matter of divs.
The references to supposed changes of curric-
lumi is unelear, but since neither the number of
students at each grade level nor the number of
teachers would necessarily change, the problem
seenis only that of allocating given numbers of
students to given classes--a problonr managed.
at the beginning of semesters by school systems

“aeross the country.

The minor changes necessary to accommodate
different ages of children than were formerly

‘in a school building—installing desks, restroom

facilities and water fountains of a different
size—can be, and norm: lly are, accompltshed in-
a short period. .
The assignment of teachers to classes they are
qualified to teach is a normal educational task,
requiring but a few davs to accomplish.
any change in the use of federal funds required
y desegregation need het be re solved before
school opening, and with the assistanee of TLE W
officials, there is flo reason why altering plans
for the expendituly of Tithe T ftimads should pre
sent a burden of any size. |

Cis the suggestion that the ommumnity, the teae he Vs
the students need more time to become acclimated.
yregation is simply imape Bae fifteen vers
Brown.

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The tasks referved to by the TEW witnesses should
together require a week or, at most, two weeks to com
plete. Where a S®sool district could not complete the
heeessary work inthe available times? the district court
could have ordered a short delay in scheduled schoo!
opening. But there are no educational reasons —pre-
sented or Nisting Whichavould support a ves’s delay
In etfee ting desegregation. Educators in the Office
of Madtication coneluded, after intensive investigations,
that none of the districts here invelved have somm __
reasons for delaying implementation of the plans sub
titted. "Phere is nothing’ in this reeord to suggest that
thas conclusion Wis Incorrect, ro.

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A further compellitig reastu for this Court te pre
hibit further delay in desceregation concerns the re-
_tationship of eases suchas these, where compliance with
coustitutional requirements has not been achbteved, to
the min school distriets in the South Where school
officials have climinated the dual svstent f tn THEA
of the hatter cases, compliance was possible in the face

of substantial resistanee. in the eotmiumity beesuse
ofthe asstimption that the judicial and exec tive state

nents concerning the timetable for desegrewation would
be enforced. An abandonment of that timetable at
tis time seriously weakens the position of those whe
vilveeated the peaceful transition te a unitary svstem,

As Secretary Binch’s letter polnted out, serie ort chaol di
Pricts involved did thiol bowin thie schoo] S Goan 8" aD itil Stole nie 1]

Petition for certiorart at 38a
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and threatens to precipitate resegregation in many
of these districts.”

— haplementation of the plaus proposed in these cases
Dy TW during the course of this school year presents
problems of disruption that would uot have been pre
sented had the Government not sought delay in August,
On balance, however, the National Mducation Associa
tion believes that the adverse effects of the- continued
maintenance of segregated schools for auy additions!
period outweighs the adverse effects of a change dur
ing the school vear, and neges this Court to order the
mimediate iniplementation of the HEW plans.

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CCNCLUSION

Any further delay in desegregation would result in
enormous and irreparable harm to black children. Phe
educational and administrative reagons that have been
advanced to justify a delay in desegration Ih the case at
barare without meri. Sound edyeational policy calls
net for delay, but for terminal désegregation, even a
the cost of reassigning students during the course of a
school Vear, 3

Accordingly, amicus Nations ledueation Association
urges that the August-28, 1969 order of the Court o:
Appeals be reversed, that this Court hold that odin
istrative difficulties will no longer be permitted te post
pone desegregatian Lr guns Case, ane that this Hiatter be

“A report of the ‘Department of Health, Education. and Wel

fare states that there were 29 hast-minute reneves on pfans’’ thy
school districts descufemating under EEE Weapproved) voluntars
plans, at the beytnning of the PTO school veut Progress Be

portion Creed Rights (W684) at 2

randed With instructions that the Distriet Court
enter orders requiriig: the immediate implementation
of the plans drawn up by the Qffiee. of: Education of *
Hie W for these school districts. |
Respectfully: submitted,

Ricwarp BL Sopot.
I8v3 detferson Place, No W. |
Washington, D.C. 20036

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| | W201 16th Street, No W.
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Attorneys for Amicus
Curtae, National Kduca- ¢
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tion Association
Of Counsel: ' a .
Richarp T. Seymour. .
1823 detferson Place, NW,
~. Washington, DLL 20086

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Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/brief%3Amicro_IA40385001_1336%3A6. Public record. Not legal advice.
