Case Name: C. D. (Denny) ABBOTT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William F. THETFORD, Individually and in his official capacity as Judge of the Family Court of Montgomery County, Alabama (John W. Davis, III, substituted for William F. Thetford in his official capacity as Judge of the Family Court of Montgomery County, Alabama), Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1976-07-06
Citations: 534 F.2d 1101
Docket Number: No. 73-1894
Parties: C. D. (Denny) ABBOTT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William F. THETFORD, Individually and in his official capacity as Judge of the Family Court of Montgomery County, Alabama (John W. Davis, III, substituted for William F. Thetford in his official capacity as Judge of the Family Court of Montgomery County, Alabama), Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before BROWN, Chief Judge, GEWIN, THORNBERRY, COLEMAN, GOLDBERG, AINSWORTH, DYER, MORGAN, CLARK, RONEY, GEE, TJOFLAT and HILL, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 534
Pages: 1101–1103

Head Matter:
C. D. (Denny) ABBOTT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William F. THETFORD, Individually and in his official capacity as Judge of the Family Court of Montgomery County, Alabama (John W. Davis, III, substituted for William F. Thetford in his official capacity as Judge of the Family Court of Montgomery County, Alabama), Defendants-Appellees.
No. 73-1894.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
July 6, 1976.
Howard A. Mandell, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff-appellant.
Neil Bradley, Laughlin McDonald, Morris Brown, Emily Carssow, Atlanta, Ga., for Tenn. Valley Unit of Ala. Chapter of Nat’l. Ass’n of Social Workers amicus curiae.
Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, Ann Wagner, Norman J. Chachkin, New York City, for NAACP amicus curiae.
Richard H. Dorrough, Robert B. Stewart, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants-appellees.
Before BROWN, Chief Judge, GEWIN, THORNBERRY, COLEMAN, GOLDBERG, AINSWORTH, DYER, MORGAN, CLARK, RONEY, GEE, TJOFLAT and HILL, Circuit Judges.
Judges Wisdom and Godbold did not participate in this decision.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
The majority panel opinion in this cause, 529 F.2d 695-702 is reversed, vacated and set aside. The Court en banc adopts as its opinion the dissenting opinion of Judge Gewin, 529 F.2d 702-709 [from which the syllabus paragraphs are drawn]. Accordingly the judgment of the district court, 354 F.Supp. 1280 (M.D.Ala.1973) is AFFIRMED.