AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Collins V. Walker 215 F.Supp. 805, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division, Docket Number MISC. 664 (3/29/1963) Habeas corpus proceeding. The District Court, West, J., held that where regularly empaneled grand jury at time of arrest of defendant contained no Negroes and investigation of petitioner was delayed until the convening of the next regular grand jury and names of six Negroes were included in the list of 20 from which grand jury of 12 was drawn by... 1963 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Colorado Anti-discrimination Commission V. Continental Air Lines, Inc. 372 U.S. 714, Supreme Court of the United States, 146, Docket Number 492 (4/22/1963) Proceeding on a complaint before state Anti-Discrimination Commission charging discrimination by interstate air carrier in the hiring of pilots. The Commission entered an order that carrier cease and desist from discriminatory practices and on review the District Court, City and County of Denver, dismissed the complaint, and the complainant and... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Colorado Court Kills Antidiscrimination Law 15 Stanford Law Review 523 (May, 1963) Constitutional LawCommerce ClauseCivil Rights.The Colorado Anti-Discrimination Commission found that defendant airline's refusal to hire Marlon Green solely because he is a Negro was a violation of a Colorado statute prohibiting racial discrimination in hiring. The trial court set aside the Commission's order requiring defendant airline to admit... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Congress of Racial Equality V. Clemmons 323 F.2d 54, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 19703 (9/12/1963) Mayor and law enforcement officials of the City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, brought suit against the Congress of Racial Equality and others to enjoin demonstrations under Civil Rights Statute enacted to carry out equal protection. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, E. Gordon West, J., entered judgment adverse to... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Congress of Racial Equality V. Douglas 318 F.2d 95, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 19724 (5/15/1963) Mayor of city and owners of restaurant in bus station brought suit against the Congress of Racial Equality to enjoin CORE from encouraging Negroes to utilize terminal facilities at bus depot, on ground that CORE intended to provoke breaches of the peace. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, William Harold Cox,... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Constitutional Law-constitutional Rights of Negro Candidates Held Not Abridged by State Statute Requiring Designation of Their Race on the Ballot 111 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 827 (April, 1963) Two Negro school board candidates brought suit in federal district court to enjoin disclosure of their race on the primary election ballot pursuant to a Louisiana statute. In denying the injunction, a three-judge district court held, one judge dissenting, that the constitutional rights of the plaintiffs were not abridged by a statute that required... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Cooks V. Brotherhood of Ry. Carmen of America, Local 991 and Local 783 Not Reported in F.Supp, United States District Court; S.D. Texas, Houston Division, Docket Number 12,329 (11/27/1963) All parties having in open court stipulated that the issue of alleged racial discrimination against plaintiffs by defendants be severed and tried, said issue being conceded by counsel for plaintiffs to be the predicate of this lawsuit, and the Court having received all evidence and heard all witnesses offered by the parties, and all parties having... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Cooney V. Katzen 41 Misc.2d 236, Supreme Court, Onondaga County, New York (12/4/1963) Proceeding by landlord for relief from an order directing him to cease and desist from refusing to lease an apartment in a multiple dwelling to a Negro. The Supreme Court, George H.... 1963 Trial Court Orders Yes  
  Cooney V. Katzen 41 Misc.2d 236, Supreme Court, Onondaga County, New York (12/4/1963) Proceeding by landlord for relief from an order directing him to cease and desist from refusing to lease an apartment in a multiple dwelling to a Negro. The Supreme Court, George H. Vinette, J., held that lease of an apartment to one Negro tenant in a multiple residence of eight apartments did not satisfy Executive Law against discrimination in... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Corbin V. County School Bd. Of Loudoun County, Va. 283 F.Supp. 60, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division, Docket Number CIV. 2737 (5/16/1963) Action by infant Negro plaintiffs, through their parents and next friends, for themselves and others similarly situated against county school board and others for admission to particular county high school and for injunction restraining defendant from any action which regulated enrollment of pupils at particular school on basis of race or color.... 1963 Cases Yes  
  David V. Vesta Co. 81 N.J.Super. 593, County Court, New Jersey, Bergen County, Law Division, Docket Number 63-364 (12/10/1963) Proceeding against defendant for allegedly committing act of discrimination in violation of housing provisions of Law Against Discrimination. From an adverse determination of the Commissioner of Education, the defendants appealed. The County Court, Law Division, G. H. Brown, J.C.C., held that housing provisions of Law Against Discrimination which... 1963 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Davis V. East Baton Rouge Parish School Bd. 219 F.Supp. 876, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division, Docket Number CIV. 1662 (7/17/1963) School desegregation case. The District Court, West, J., held that under circumstances, plan for school desegregation contemplating transfers on request in present year, and, in succeeding year, desegregation of 12th grade in that original assignments would be made without regard to race, satisfied requirements of prompt and reasonable start toward... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Davis V. East Baton Rouge Parish School Bd. 214 F.Supp. 624, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division, Docket Number CIV. 1662 (3/1/1963) Suit demanding desegregation of parish school system. On a Renewed Motion for Further Relief field by the plaintiffs, the District Court, West, J., held that where a previous order restraining the defendant public school board and others from requiring racial segregation from and after such time as necessary to arrange for admission upon a... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Dixon V. Duncan 218 F.Supp. 157, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division, Docket Number CIV. 2906-M (5/21/1963) Action by prisoner to enjoin threatened integration of dormitory at federal reformatory. The District Court, Lewis, J., held that prisoner established discrimination in housing of white prisoners who were not given choice of living in all-white dormitories while Negro prisoners were given choice of living in all-Negro dormitories. Order... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Dowell V. School Bd. Of Oklahoma City Public Schools 219 F.Supp. 427, United States District Court W.D. Oklahoma, Docket Number CIV. 9452 (7/11/1963) Suit for an injunction restraining school officials from continuing segregation in public schools and other relief. The District Court, Bohanon, J., held that evidence established that refusal of city school board to grant request for transfer of certain Negro students from predominantly Negro school to predominantly white school was because of... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Eaton V. Grubbs 216 F.Supp. 465, United States District Court E.D. North Carolina, Wilmington Division, Docket Number CIV. 932 (4/9/1963) Class action by Negro physicians and patients to prohibit hospital from denying courtesy staff privileges solely on account of race or color and to require admission of patients on a nonsegregated basis. On motion to dismiss, the District Court, Butler, Chief Judge, held that in absence of additional allegation of fact showing to contrary, case was... 1963 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Edwards V. South Carolina 372 U.S. 229, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 86 (2/25/1963) Prosecution of group of Negroes for breach of the peace. From an adverse judgment of the General Sessions Court of Richland County, South Carolina, the defendants appealed. The Supreme Court of South Carolina, 239 S.C. 339, 123 S.E.2d 247, affirmed, and certiorari was granted. The United States Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Stewart, held that arrest,... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Employee Choice and Some Problems of Race and Remedies in Representation Campaigns 72 Yale Law Journal 1243 (May, 1963) The National Labor Relations Board in its zeal to ensure a reasoned choice by employees in representation elections has created a distinction between emotional and rational campaign propaganda on the subject of race. While a closer consideration of the requirements of a free choice suggests that this distinction is not a tenable one, other... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Ex Parte Prince 367 S.W.2d 687, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 35843 (5/8/1963) Proceeding upon original application attacking conviction. The Court of Criminal Appeals, Morrison, J., held that the burden was upon accused to prove that persons of the Negro race were discriminated against in selection of jurors and where he failed to raise the issue at the trial, or on appeal, he could not prove discrimination collaterally on... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Fair Share Organization, Inc. V. Mitnick 134 Ind.App. 675, Appellate Court of Indiana, Division No. 2, Docket Number 19741 (3/19/1963) Action for injunction to restrain picketing assertedly conducted to require plaintiff to hire Negro clerk even if he had to discharge white clerk to do so. The LaPorte Circuit Court, Roy Sheneman, Special Judge, granted a temporary injunction and made special findings of fact and conclusions of law, and defendant appealed. The Appellate Court,... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Flax V. Potts 218 F.Supp. 254, United States District Court N.D. Texas, Fort Worth Division, Docket Number CIV. 4205 (5/3/1963) Action to end compulsory segregation in Fort Worth public schools. The District Court, Brewster, J., on remand from the Court of Appeals, held that evidence established that the entire school system should not be desegregated at one time, but that the first grade in all schools and all classes in the adult education program should be desegregated... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Franklin V. Parker 223 F.Supp. 724, United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Eastern Division, Docket Number CIV. 621-E (11/5/1963) Action by Negro on behalf of himself and other Negroes similarly situated for preliminary injunction against university officials. The District Court, Johnson, J., held that where effect of state operated university graduate school rule, which denied admission to graduates from nonaccredited institutions, was racial discrimination because state... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Gaines V. Dougherty County Bd. Of Ed. 222 F.Supp. 166, United States District Court M.D. Georgia, Albany Division, Docket Number CIV. 764 (7/12/1963) School desegregation suit. The District Court, Elliott, J., held that bi-racial school system under which facilities were generally provided two races on equal basis constituted violation of constitutional rights of Negroes, and it was duty of federal court to order end of segregated system, and that plan for desegregation of bi-racial school... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Gantt V. Clemson Agr. College of S. C. 320 F.2d 611, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8871 (1/16/1963) Action by Negro seeking permanent injunction restraining defendants from denying him admission to state college. The United States District Court for the Western District of South Carolina, at Anderson, C. C. Wyche, J., 213 F.Supp. 103, dismissed complaint and appeal was taken. The Court of Appeals held that college should not have prevented... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Goss V. Board of Ed. Of City of Knoxville, Tenn. 373 U.S. 683, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 217 (6/3/1963) Case involving public school desegregation plan submitted by board of education. The United, States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee approved the plan and an appeal was taken. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 301 F.2d 164, affirmed, except insofar as plan pertained to transfer procedures, and certiorari... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Greene V. Fair 314 F.2d 200, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 20318 (2/18/1963) Proceeding, by Negro seeking admission to state university, on an emergency motion for an injunction pending an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Sidney C. Mize, J., staying the cause pending exhaustion of administrative remedies. The Court of Appeals held that appellant failed to... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Harris V. Gibson 322 F.2d 780, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 20871 (9/12/1963) Action against county board of education to enjoin the transfer of Negro children to formerly all white high school. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Frank M. Scarlett, J., entered a pre-trial order to the end of continuing in force a temporary restraining order preventing the transfers under the school board's... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Henslee V. Stewart 311 F.2d 691, United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, Docket Number 17148 (1/11/1963) Habeas corpus proceeding brought by Negro who had been convicted in the state court and who alleged denial of his federal constitutional rights in the selection of the jury panel. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Fordon E. Young, J., 206 F.Supp. 137, entered an order and the respondent appealed. The Court of... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Holliday V. Mcginnis 18 A.D.2d 828, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York (1/21/1963) Proceeding under Civil Practice Act, § 1283 et seq. The Supreme Court, Special Term, Dutchess County, Frank S. McCullough, J., denied the application. The applicant appealed. The Supreme Court, Appellate Division, held that petition alleged sufficient prejudice and discrimination against prisoner because of his attempts to use the name he had since... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Holmes V. Bank of America Nat. Trust & Sav. Ass'n 216 Cal.App.2d 529, District Court of Appeal, Fourth District, California, Docket Number CIV. 6956 (5/22/1963) Action by a Negro against companies engaged in business of home building and a bank for refusing to sell him a home solely because of his race. From a judgment of the Superior Court, San Diego County, William A. Glen, J., sustaining the bank's demurrer, the plaintiff appealed. The District Court of Appeal, Griffin, P. J., held that complaint which... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
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