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Robert B. McKay Caucasians Only. By Clement E. Vose. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1959. Pp. Xi, 296. $6.00 69 Yale Law Journal 1482 (July, 1960) The Restrictive Covenant Cases of 1948Shelley v. Kraemer and Hurd v. Hodge were possibly the most noteworthy civil rights cases of their decade. By denying on equal-protection and due-process grounds the power of staite and federal courts to give specific enforcement to covenants aimed at the exclusion of Negroes, the Supreme Court greatly... 1960 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  City of Montgomery, Ala. V. Gilmore 277 F.2d 364, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 18107 (4/15/1960) Action to enjoin enforcement of racial segregation in city parks, and for declaration that such segregation is unconstitutional. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, Frank M. Johnson, Jr., J., 176 F.Supp. 776, rendered a judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants appealed. The Court of Appeals, Rives, Chief Judge, held... 1960 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
Bethuel M. Webster Civil Liberties and Canadian Federalism 73 Harvard Law Review 1432 (May, 1960) It was a shrewd editor who suggested that these books from opposite ends of the Commonwealth be read and discussed together: the first, the 1959 Alan B. Plaunt Memorial Lectures at Carleton University hopeful and confident by a native of Quebec, poet, politician, and professor of law; the other initiated by the South African Institute of Race... 1960 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Coke V. City of Atlanta, Ga. 184 F.Supp. 579, United States District Court N.D. Georgia, Atlanta Division, Docket Number CIV. 6733 (1/5/1960) Negro brought class action against city, corporation operating restaurant in airport terminal building of city under lease from city, mayor, manager of restaurant, and manager of airport terminal to restrain them from making any distinction based on color in regard to services in restaurant, on ground that refusal to serve Negro on same basis as... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Colorado Anti-discrimination Commission V. Continental Air Lines, Inc. 143 Colo. 590, Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc, Docket Number 19215 (8/15/1960) Proceeding to review order of the Anti-Discrimination Commission. The District Court of the City and County of Denver, William A. Black, J., held that an order of the Commission, which had been entered after the supposed vacation of the order originally subjected to review, was a nullity and the questions moot, and a proponent of the order brought... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Contee V. State 223 Md. 575, Court of Appeals of Maryland, Docket Number 91 (12/9/1960) A Negro was convicted of raping a white woman. The Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Kathryn J. Lawlor and James H. Pugh, JJ., entered judgment and sentence, and defendant appealed. The Court of Appeals, Horney, J., held that the record established that defendant had been denied the opportunity to submit or request proper questions relating to... 1960 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
William W. Van Alstyne Discrimination in State University Housing Programs-policy and Constitutional Consideration 13 Stanford Law Review 60 (December, 1960) In nearly all major state universities today, substantial numbers of students are obliged to live off-campus in private apartments or rooming houses. Rather than cast these students into unfamiliar neighborhoods to find suitable accommodations by chance, most of these universities maintain some facility which refers students to landlords who have... 1960 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Dove V. Parham 181 F.Supp. 504, United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Western Division, Docket Number 3680 (2/19/1960) Action by Negro students against members of board of directors of school district and district to compel admission of students to white schools within district. The District Court, Henley, Chief Judge, held, inter alia, that where at time school district board denied Negro students' applications, under Arkansas Pupil Placement Act of 1959, for... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Dove V. Parham 282 F.2d 256, United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit, 16437, 16448, Docket Number 16487 (8/30/1960) Individual and class action by school children of Negro race to compel admission of children to white school within district. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, J. Smith Henley, Chief Judge, 181 F.Supp. 504, filed decree dismissing supplemental complaint seeking court order for admission of particular children... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Dove V. Parham 183 F.Supp. 389, United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Western Division, Docket Number CIV.3680 (4/30/1960) The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas filed a decree directing defendant school authorities to file an affirmative statement of policies which they proposed to pursue in applying the Arkansas Pupil Assignment Law and their own regulations implementing that statute so as to eliminate compulsory racial segregation in... 1960 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Evans V. Ennis 281 F.2d 385, United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit, Docket Number 13018-13024 (7/19/1960) Class action by Negro children to compel their admission into public schools of state on a racially nondiscriminatory basis. The United States District Court for the District of Delaware, Caleb R. Layton, III, J. 172 F.Supp. 508, as supplemented by173 F.Supp. 891, entered order approving proposed plan for desegregation, and plaintiffs appealed. The... 1960 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Farley V. Turner 281 F.2d 131, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8054 (6/28/1960) Action to obtain admission of four Negro children to predominantly white schools. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk, Beckett v. School Board of City of Norfold, Va., 185 F.Supp. 459, Walter E. Hoffman, J., ordered admission of the children, and the Pupil Placement Board of theCommonwealth of Virginia... 1960 Cases Yes  
  George W. Warner & Co. V. Black & Decker Mfg. Co. 277 F.2d 787, United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit, Docket Number 199, 25722 (5/3/1960) Distributor's action against manufacturer and the manager of its sales and service branches for illegal resale pricefixing and for alleged discrimination in prices charged for replacement and repair parts. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Mortimer W. Byers, J., 172 F.Supp. 221, dismissed the first and second... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Goins V. County School Bd. Of Grayson County 186 F.Supp. 753, United States District Court W. D. Virginia, at Abingdon, Docket Number CIV. 776 (9/8/1960) Class action by minors of Negro race to establish their rights to receive a high school education on the same basis and under the same conditions as white children. The District Court, John Paul, J., held that where the county school board had contract with city, which maintained a high school in such city, whereby students residing in certain area... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Goins V. County School Bd. Of Grayson County 282 F.2d 343, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number CIV. A. 776 (9/13/1960) Proceeding on application for stay of judgment in school segregation case. Where county school board maintained no high school for the education of Negro pupils and sent white pupils in a certain section of county to high school in nearby city less than three miles from their homes while Negro pupils were compelled to travel daily by bus to an... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Goss V. Board of Ed. Of City of Knoxville, Tenn. 186 F.Supp. 559, United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, Northern Division, Docket Number CIV. 3984 (8/19/1960) Class action brought by Negro school children and parents or guardians of children seeking an injunction restraining school board and other school officials from operating a compulsory racially segregated school system and for a judgment declaring rights of Negro children to be admitted to city public schools on a racially unsegregated basis and... 1960 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Griffin V. Collins 187 F.Supp. 149, United States District Court D. Maryland, Docket Number CIV. 12308 (8/25/1960) Class action by persons of Negro race against special deputy sheriff employed by amusement park, sheriff, and corporate owners and corporate operators of amusement park, to prevent the arrest for trespass of Negroes who visited amusement park. Defendants, other than the sheriff, moved to dismiss, or to stay proceedings. Plaintiffs moved for... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Griffith V. Board of Ed. Of Yancey County 186 F.Supp. 511, United States District Court W. D. North Carolina, Asheville Division, Docket Number CIV. 1881 (9/12/1960) Negro students brought action against board of education of county to enjoin board of education from discriminating against them by refusing to assign them to particular schools maintained and operated by the board of education in the county, on account of their race. The District Court, Warlick, J., held that actions of board of education of... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Hackley V. Art Builders, Inc. 179 F.Supp. 851, United States District Court D. Maryland, Docket Number CIV. 11807 (1/5/1960) Action by Negroes for declaratory judgment that developers' refusal to sell them a house was in violation of their constitutional rights and for an injunction restraining the developers from refusal to sell houses to Negroes and an injunction restraining the Metropolitan Commission from furnishing water and sewerage service to the developers so... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Henry V. Greenville Airport Commission 284 F.2d 631, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8247 (12/1/1960) Action against municipal airport commission, its members, and airport manager, to enjoin exclusion of plaintiff and other Negroes similarly situated from general waiting room in passenger terminal at municipal airport. The United States District Court for the Western District of South Carolina, at Greenville, George Bell Timmerman, J., made an... 1960 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Henry V. Greenville Airport Commission 279 F.2d 751, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8009 (4/20/1960) Action against members of municipal airport commission and airport manager to enjoin exclusion of plaintiff and other Negroes similarly situated from general waiting room in passenger terminal at municipal airport. The United States District Court for the Western District of South Carolina, at Greenville, George Bell Timmerman, J., 175 F.Supp. 343,... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Hill V. School Bd. Of City of Norfolk, Va. 282 F.2d 473, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8053 (9/9/1960) School desegregation case. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk, Walter E. Hoffman, J., 185 F.Supp. 459, rendered an order approving procedures, as interim measures only, and subject to re-examination, whereby desegregation would be effected by plan of progressively opening grades beginning with higher... 1960 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Holmes V. Danner 191 F.Supp. 385, United States District Court M.D. Georgia, Athens Division, Docket Number CIV. 450 (9/25/1960) Action to enjoin state university officials from refusing to consider applications of plaintiff Negroes and other Negro residents upon the same terms and conditions as are applicable to white applications for admission to the university. The District Court, Bootle, J., held that a prayer for an interlocutory injunction would be denied on the ground... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Jones V. Marva Theatres, Inc. 180 F.Supp. 49, United States District Court D. Maryland, Docket Number CIV. 10704 (1/5/1960) Action, to enjoin city and corporation to which it leased theater in city hall, from continuance of segregated seating arrangements or any other kind of discrimination in theater. The District Court, Thomsen, Chief Judge, held that where city leased theater located in city hall building to private corporation for ten-year term, reserving right to... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Jones V. School Bd. Of City of Alexandria, Va. 278 F.2d 72, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 7897 (4/20/1960) Action contesting actions of city board of education in denying applications of 14 Negro children, under pupil placement plan, for transfer from colored to white schools. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Alexandria, Albert V. Bryan, J., 179 F.Supp. 280, ordered that nine of the students be admitted but... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Lubliner V. Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control for City of Paterson 33 N.J. 428, Supreme Court of New Jersey, Docket Number A-5 (11/7/1960) Proceedings on application for a place-to-place liquor license transfer to enable licensee to establish a restaurant catering to colored patrons. The Superior Court, Appellate Division, 59 N.J.Super. 419, 158 A.2d 54, affirmed administrative grant of relief sought, and certification was granted at request of objectors. The Supreme Court, Jacobs,... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Mannings V. Board of Public Instruction of Hillsborough County, Fla. 277 F.2d 370, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 17939 (4/13/1960) Suit for injunction restraining local board of education from continuing to pursue policy of operating public schools on a racially segregated basis. From a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, George W. Whitehurst, Chief Judge, dismissing the complaint, the plaintiffs appealed. The Court of Appeals,... 1960 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Maxwell V. County Bd. Of Ed. Of Davidson County, Tenn. 203 F.Supp. 768, United States District Court M.D. Tennessee, Nashville Division, Docket Number CIV. 2956 (11/23/1960) School desegregation case. The District Court, William E. Miller, Chief Judge, held that the first four grades of the Davidson County, Tennessee, public school system should be desegregated at the beginning of the next semester, and that one additional grade should be desegregated beginning with each subsequent school year. Judgment in accordance... 1960 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Mccoy V. Greensboro City Bd. Of Ed. 283 F.2d 667, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8127 (11/14/1960) Action by Negro children and their fathers to secure right of children to attend public schools of city on equality with white children and for an injunction against city school board and its members restraining them from taking any action regulating admission of Negro children on basis of race or color. From a judgment of the United States... 1960 Cases Yes  
  Mccoy V. Greensboro City Bd. Of Ed. 179 F.Supp. 745, United States District Court M.D. North Carolina, Greensboro Division, Docket Number CIV. C-26-G-59 (1/14/1960) Negro students brought class action against city board of education and others for declaration of rights of Negro students and class of persons represented by them to attend public schools of city without discrimination on account of race or color and for injunction to restrain board from operating schools on racially segregated basis and from... 1960 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
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