AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  U.s. V. Wallace 218 F.Supp. 290, United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Western Division, Docket Number CIV. 63-255 (6/5/1963) Proceeding on application for temporary injunction. The District Court, Lynne, Chief Judge, held that the United States had standing to seek and was entitled to a temporary injunction restraining Governor of Alabama from obstructing implementation of federal district court order concerning enrollment of Negroes in University of Alabama. Temporary... 1963 Cases Yes  
  U.s. V. Ward 222 F.Supp. 617, United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Monroe Division, Docket Number CIV. 8547 (10/22/1963) Action against a state and parish registrar of voters to enjoin discriminatory acts and practices in registration of voters. The District Court, Ben C. Dawkins, Jr., Chief Judge, held that denying Negroes the opportunity to apply for registration as a preliminary step to becoming registered voters was in violation of the Fifteenth Amendment and... 1963 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  U.s. V. Wilder 222 F.Supp. 749, United States District Court W.D. Louisiana, Monroe Division, Docket Number CIV. 8695 (10/23/1963) Suit brought under the Civil Rights Act charging defendants with acts and practices which deprived citizens of the United States of right to register to vote without distinction because of race or color. The District Court, Ben C. Dawkins, Jr., Chief Judge, held that Citizens' Council of parish and the members thereof, in challenging registration... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Washington State Bd. Against Discrimination V. Interlake Realty, Inc. 62 Wash.2d 928, Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc, Docket Number 36696 (9/19/1963) Racial discrimination case. The Superior Court, King County, Eugene A. Wright, J., entered order directing real estate salesman to appear before State Board Against Discrimination to testify in response to subpoena relative to complaint of prospective home purchaser that he had been discriminated against because of his race, and the salesman... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Watson V. City of Memphis 373 U.S. 526, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 424 (5/27/1963) Action against a municipality for declaratory and injunctive relief directing immediate desegregation of municipal parks and other city-owned or operated recreational facilities. The United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Western Division, denied relief sought by plaintiffs and ordered the city to submit, within six... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Webb V. Board of Ed. Of City of Chicago 223 F.Supp. 466, United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division, Docket Number 63 C 1895 (11/18/1963) Class action by parents of several Negro children enrolled in public schools on their own behalf and on behalf of others similarly situated for injunctive relief against maintenance of racially segregated public schools. Plaintiffs moved for an injunction pendente lite. The District Court, Marovitz, J., held that plaintiffs were not entitled to... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Williams V. Howard Johnson's Inc. of Washington 323 F.2d 102, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8931 (9/17/1963) Action against operator of private restaurant for damages based upon refusal of the restaurant manager to serve the plaintiff allegedly upon the sole ground that the plaintiff was a Negro. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Alexandria, Oren R. Lewis, J., 210 F.Supp. 295, dismissed the complaint on the ground... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Wood V. Hogan 215 F.Supp. 53, United States District Court W.D. Virginia, Lynchburg Division, Docket Number CIV. 535-A (3/8/1963) Action for injunction by members of Negro race to end racial segregation in hospital operated by non-stock, non-prof-it, charitable corporation. The District Court, Michie, J., held that when city general hospital was unconditionally transferred to independent, non-stock, non-profit, charitable corporation and it ceased to be state or city agency... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Wright V. Rockefeller and Legislative Gerrymanders: the Desegregation Decisions plus a Problem of Proof 72 Yale Law Journal 1041 (April, 1963) The historical and present significance of the electoral gerrymander the manipulation of the configuration and thereby the character of the population of political districts parallels that of the malapportionment of voting districts, for both are methods by which legislatures may vest or freeze unchallengeable electoral power in favored groups.... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Wright V. State of Ga. 373 U.S. 284, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 68 (5/20/1963) Prosecution for breach of the peace. The City Court of Savannah entered judgments of conviction and the defendants brought error. The Supreme Court of Georgia, 217 Ga. 453, 122 S.E.2d 737, affirmed and certiorari was granted. The Supreme Court, Mr. Chief Justice Warren, held that there was no showing that Negro defendants, ordered to leave... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Young Adults for Progressive Action, Inc. V. B & B Cash Grocery Stores, Inc. 151 So.2d 877, District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District, Docket Number 3374 (3/20/1963) Suit in equity was brought by operator of stores to enjoin Negro organization from picketing stores. The Circuit Court for Hillsborough County, John Germany, J., entered a decree enjoining the Negro organization from picketing, and it appealed. The District Court of Appeal, Barns, Paul D., Associate Judge, held that picketing is more than free... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Adams V. City of New Orleans, La. 208 F.Supp. 427, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division, Docket Number CIV. 10047, CIV. 10062 (8/2/1962) Suit to enjoin segregation of races in certain facilities serving food and beverages at airport owned by City and maintained by agency of city. The District Court, Christenberry, Chief Judge, held that failure of franchise holder to operate food and beverage facilities on desegregated basis was state action depriving Negroes of equal protection,... 1962 Cases Yes  
  Anderson V. Anderson 52 Tenn.App. 241, Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Western Section at Jackson (9/28/1962) In an ejectment action, the intervening petitioners claimed title as the collateral heirs of the wife of a deceased Negro man who had been born in slavery. In 1865, 1866 and 1869 chiidren had been born to the Negro man and a colored woman who had also been in slavery. The defendants claimed title under a deed from the issue of these children. The... 1962 Cases Yes  
  Anderson V. Courson 203 F.Supp. 806, United States District Court M.D. Georgia, Albany Division, Docket Number CIV. 686 (1/8/1962) Action by Negroes on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated against county ordinary, and chairman and members of political party executive committee of county for judgment declaring that requiring voting in segregated voting places, and maintenance of segregated voting lists deprived the Negroes of equal protection of the law, and for... 1962 Cases Yes  
  Anderson V. Martin 206 F.Supp. 700, United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana, Docket Number CIV. 2623 (6/29/1962) Action by Negro candidates for office in Louisiana challenging the constitutionality of a statute requiring the Secretary of State to place racial designation over name of every candidate on ballot. A three-judge Federal District Court, West, J., held that constitutional rights of Negro candidate were not abridged by Louisiana statute requiring his... 1962 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Augustus V. Board of Public Instruction of Escambia County, Fla. 306 F.2d 862, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 19408 (7/24/1962) Negro pupils by their parents and next friends brought suit against school authorities to enjoin them from assigning students, teachers, principals, and other school personnel on the basis of race and color. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, George Harrold Carswell, J., 185 F.Supp. 450, rendered a judgment... 1962 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Black V. Board of Ed. Of Amityville, N. Y. 31 F.R.D. 44, United States District Court E. D. New York, Docket Number 62-C-284 (6/4/1962) Class action to enjoin board of education from requiring Negroes to be registered in racially segregated public elementary school, and to require board to register Negroes in integrated school, wherein the board moved to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim for relief. The District Court, Bruchhausen, J., held that complaint... 1962 Cases Yes  
  Bohler V. Lane 204 F.Supp. 168, United States District Court S.D. Florida, Tampa Division, Docket Number CIV. 3809 (3/19/1962) Action by Negro plaintiffs for declaratory and injunctive relief against city's operation of parks on segregated basis. The District Court, Lieb, J., held that the plaintiffs were entitled to declaratory relief, but that in view of substantial evidence indicating likelihood of recurrence of segregated operation, injunction would not be granted.... 1962 Cases Yes  
  Branche V. Board of Ed. Of Town of Hempstead, School Dist. No. 1 204 F.Supp. 150, United States District Court E.D. New York, Docket Number 62 C 176 (4/9/1962) Action on behalf of grade school children for injunction against alleged maintenance by school district board of education of racially segregated public schools, wherein the board filed a motion for summary judgment. The District Court, Dooling, J., held that evidence raised fact questions whether board had sufficiently moved to deal with racial... 1962 Cases Yes  
  Brief for Respondent, Edwards V. South Carolina Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 86 (11/17/1962) This case involves the First Amendment and Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. On March 2, 1961, a group of Negro students, petitioners herein,... 1962 Briefs Yes  
  Brunson V. Board of Trustees of School Dist. No. 1 of Clarendon County, S. C. 311 F.2d 107, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8727 (12/7/1962) Class action by 42 Negro children for injunctive relief against a school board which was allegedly maintaining a biracial school system, and for other relief. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina, at Charleston, C. C. Wyche, J., 30 F.R.D. 69, entered an order striking from the complaint, reference to all... 1962 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Brunson V. Board of Trustees of School Dist. No. 1 of Clarendon County, S. C. 30 F.R.D. 369, United States District Court, E.D. South Carolina, Charleston Division, Docket Number CIV. 7210 (5/30/1962) Action brought on behalf of a large number of Negro school children by their respective parents against school officials alleging that the plaintiffs were being denied admission to certain schools solely on account of race. The District Court, Wyche, Chief Judge, held that where the common question of law had been settled and the complaint did not... 1962 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Burks V. Poppy Const. Co. Docket Number 57 Cal.2d 482, Supreme Court of California, In Bank, Docket Number S.F. 20913 (3/26/1962) Action by prospective purchasers of home against contractor and his employee for damages and injunctive relief alleging discrimination with respect to sale of house in a tract. From an adverse judgment of the Superior Court, City and County of San Francisco, Edward F. O'Day, J., the plaintiffs appealed. The Supreme Court, Gibson, C. J., held that... 1962 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Bush V. Orleans Parish School Bd. 205 F.Supp. 893, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, Docket Number CIV. 3630 (5/23/1962) School desegregation proceeding, in which the defendant school board moved for a new trial of issues decided by order expanding prior desegregation order to include desegregation of first six grades. The District Court, Ellis, J., held that where state school officials failed to comply with school desegregation order, it was obligation of court... 1962 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Bush V. Orleans Parish School Bd. 308 F.2d 491, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 19720 (8/6/1962) Desegregation case. From an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Frank B. Ellis, J., 205 F.Supp. 893, modifying the 1960 grade-a-year desegregation plan, the school board and certain individuals appealed. The Court of Appeals, Wisdom, Circuit Judge, held that where school board applied Louisiana Pupil... 1962 Cases Yes  
  Bush V. Orleans Parish School Bd. 204 F.Supp. 568, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division, Docket Number CIV. 3630-B (4/3/1962) Proceeding involving desegregation of public schools. The District Court, Wright, J., held that application of tests under Pupil Placement Act to only first grade children seeking transfer from Negro to white schools without testing all children seeking to enter such grade or any other grade was unconstitutional. Order accordingly. 1962 Cases Yes  
  Calhoun V. Latimer 217 F.Supp. 614, United States District Court N.D. Georgia, Atlanta Division, Docket Number CIV. 6298 (11/15/1962) Action against board of education and others to enjoin operation of segregated bi-racial school system. The District Court, Hooper, Chief Judge, held, inter alia, that operative plan of school desegregation would not be summarily displaced by proposed new plan, where operative plan had been fairly administered, local authorities had given utmost... 1962 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Christian V. Jemison 303 F.2d 52, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 19120 (4/25/1962) Action for an injunction against enforcement of a Baton Rouge ordinance requiring local transportation companies to segregate seating of white and Negro passengers. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Herbert W. Christenberry, J., granted the plaintiffs a summary judgment and the defendants appealed. The Court of... 1962 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  City of Sumter V. Lewis 241 S.C. 364, Supreme Court of South Carolina, Docket Number 17997 (12/3/1962) Convicted, in the General Sessions Court of Sumter County, James Hugh McFaddin, J., of breach of the peace, the defendants appealed. The Supreme Court, Legge, Acting Associate Justice, held that conduct of defendants, walking on sidewalk in single file, carrying placards protesting racial segregation, but making no noise and not obstructing... 1962 Cases Yes  
Donald H. Ray Civil Rights-race Discrimination-purposeful Refusal of School Board to Redraw Illegally Drawn School District Lines or Otherwise to Alleviate Segregation Declared Unconstitutional. Taylor V. Board of Educ., 294 F.2d 36 (2d Cir.), Cert. Denied, 368 U.s. 94 41 Texas Law Review 128 (November, 1962) Plaintiffs, Negro school children, sought to enjoin defendant school board from requiring them to register in a public elementary school whose student body was ninety-four per cent Negro, and to require the school board to register them in a racially integrated school. The school board followed a neighborhood school plan which required a child to... 1962 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
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