Denial of Petition in Davis v. Mobile County School Board

     [||34959f54-f48d-4942-8afe-1c521aa2c223||] IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA 

SOUTHERN DIVISION 

BIRDIE MAE DAVIS, Et Al, ; 
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Plaintiffs, Xi a 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

by RAMSEY CLARK, Attorney - * 

General of the United States, 

Plaintiff-Intervenor, : : ria 

VS. CLVIL ACTION NO. 3003-63 
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BOARD. OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONER apn | 
OF MOBILE COUNTY, Et Al, ® 3 

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Defendant~Intervenors. w 

On January 14, 1970, the Supreme Court of the United States 

eo] reversed this case and the Fifth Circuit on January 21st, ordered 

this -Court to enter 21 te Snien for implements ation on February 1, 1970. 

This en its decree on January 31, 1970, and ordered 

that it be implemented forthwith. The Board of School Commissioners 

announced that it would be implemented on March 16, 1970, today, 

The Legislature of Alabama passed the Freedom of Choice Bill 
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on the 4th day of Ma ch 1970. The School Board then passed a 

_resolution to the effect that it would not follow this Court's decree 

but would continue to operate as it has heretofore. =, a 

In 1809, Chief Justice Marshall said: "1f the legislators 

of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments . 0f the 

Courts of the United States, and destroy the rights acquired under 

those judgments, the Constitution itself becomes a soluwm mockery: and 

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the nation is deprived of the means of en forcing its laws by the 

. ‘s avi on ; 5s «Ban . ) Cr . : .- nstrumentality of its own tribunals.” 

 



  

The School Board is reguired to follow the order oF 

this Court of January 31, 1970, as amended, and if the same 

is not followed within three days from this date, a fine of 

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$1,000 pex day is hereby assessed for each such day, against 

each member of the Board of School Commissioners. 

The plaintiffs in this case, on the 10th day of 

March 1970, filed a petition requesting this Court to declare 

the Freedom of Choice Act of the Legislature of the State 

of Alabama unconstitutional. This case is not the proper 

vehicle in which to test the constitutionality of said Act. 

The said petition is therefore dismissed. 

DONE at Mobile, Alabama, this the 16th day of 

  

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. UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 

U.S. DISTRICT COURT 
SOU. DIST. ALA. 
FILED AND ENTERED THIS THE 
£73 DAY OF MARCH, 1970. 

. MINUTE ENTRY NO._ - i - -- of. STL : 
WILLIAM J. O'CONNOR, CLERK 

  

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