Case Name: Larry BENNETT et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. MADISON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant; Sonny Wellington HEREFORD et al., Plaintiffs, v. HUNTSVILLE BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant; Catherine Ann MILLER, Plaintiff, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF GADSDEN et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant; George Robert BOYKINS et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. FAIRFIELD BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1970-12-30
Citations: 437 F.2d 554
Docket Number: Nos. 28920, 28923, 28924, 28925
Parties: Larry BENNETT et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. MADISON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant. Sonny Wellington HEREFORD et al., Plaintiffs, v. HUNTSVILLE BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant. Catherine Ann MILLER, Plaintiff, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF GADSDEN et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant. George Robert BOYKINS et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. FAIRFIELD BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 437
Pages: 554–558

Head Matter:
Larry BENNETT et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. MADISON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant. Sonny Wellington HEREFORD et al., Plaintiffs, v. HUNTSVILLE BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant. Catherine Ann MILLER, Plaintiff, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF GADSDEN et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant. George Robert BOYKINS et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. FAIRFIELD BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant.
Nos. 28920, 28923, 28924, 28925.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Dec. 30, 1970.
Soloman S. Seay, Jr., Fred D. Gray, Gray, Seay & Langford, Montgomery, Ala., Orzell Billingsley, Jr., Demetrius C. Newton, and Wayman G. Sherrer, U. S. Atty., Birmingham, Ala., J. Levonne Chambers, Jack Greenberg, and Norman C. Amaker, New York City, Frank M. Dunbaugh, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept, of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, D. C., for appellants.
Ralph H. Ford and Joe L. Payne, Huntsville, Ala., Reid B. Barnes, Joseph F. Johnston, Maurice Bishop, and John P. Carlton, Birmingham, Ala., and Frank J. Martin, Gadsden, Ala., for ap-pellees.
Jerris Leonard, Asst. Atty. Gen., David L. Norman, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Brian K. Landsberg, David D. Gregory and Joseph D. Rich, Attys., Civil Rights Div., U. S. Dept, of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States as amicus curiae.
Before RIVES, WISDOM and GOD-BOLD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
These cases, heard and submitted together, are appeals from denials by the District Court for the Northern District of Alabama of petitions by the National Education Association, Inc., to intervene in school desegregation cases. The appellant association contends that it was entitled to intervene as a matter of right under Rule 24(a) (2), Fed.R.Civ. P. There is not involved the right to in tervene as a matter of discretion under Rule 24(b).
In Horton v. Lawrence County Board of Education, 425 F.2d 735 (5th Cir. 1970), the same petition for intervention was filed as in the instant cases, and we held that NEA was not entitled to intervene as a matter of right.
Our decision in Horton controls the cases now before us.
Affirmed.
. The only difference is that in each of the instant cases there has been added an allegation not present in Horton that the United States already has been granted leave to intervene as plaintiff. The same briefs have been filed as in Horton and the same counsel appear for NEA.