AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Evans V. Ross 55 N.J.Super. 266, County Court, New Jersey, Camden County, Law Division, Docket Number 40518 (4/21/1959) Discrimination case. The Commissioner of Education found respondent guilty of acts of discrimination, and an appeal was taken. The County Court, Martino, J.C.C., held that dining rooms available by reservation only did not come within statutory exception applicable to places of accommodations of a distinctly private nature, and restaurateur was... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Evans V. Ross 55 N.J.Super. 266, County Court, New Jersey, Camden County, Law Division, Docket Number 40518 (4/21/1959) Discrimination case. The Commissioner of Education found respondent guilty of acts of discrimination, and an appeal was taken. The County Court, Martino, J.C.C., held that dining rooms available by reservation only did not come within statutory exception applicable to places of accommodations of a distinctly private nature, and restaurateur was... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Evans V. Ross 57 N.J.Super. 223, Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division, Docket Number A-602 (9/21/1959) Proceeding on complaints filed with Division Against Discrimination charging business owner with violating law against discrimination. The Commissioner of Education filed decision and order in which he found business owner guilty of discrimination, and owner appealed. The County Court, 55 N.J.Super. 266, 150 A.2d 512, affirmed, and owner appealed.... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Evans V. Ross 57 N.J.Super. 223, Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division, Docket Number A-602 (9/21/1959) Proceeding on complaints filed with Division Against Discrimination charging business owner with violating law against discrimination. The Commissioner of Education filed decision and order in which he found business owner guilty of discrimination, and owner appealed. The County Court, 55 N.J.Super. 266, 150 A.2d 512, affirmed, and owner appealed.... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Flowers V. State 269 Ala. 395, Supreme Court of Alabama, Docket Number 6 DIV. 278 (2/12/1959) Prosecution for murder. From adverse judgment of the Circuit Court, Jefferson County, Alta L. King, J., the defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Merrill, J., held that opening argument by solicitor that the time had come to quit treating these people (referring to Negro race), as children and that they were enjoying equal economic status and... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Flowers V. State 269 Ala. 395, Supreme Court of Alabama, Docket Number 6 DIV. 278 (2/12/1959) Prosecution for murder. From adverse judgment of the Circuit Court, Jefferson County, Alta L. King, J., the defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Merrill, J., held that opening argument by solicitor that the time had come to quit treating these people (referring to Negro race), as children and that they were enjoying equal economic status and... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Gibson V. Board of Public Instruction of Dade County, Fla. 272 F.2d 763, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 17814 (11/24/1959) Negro pupils brought suit against board of public instruction of county and others for an order that board desegregate public schools of county and to enjoin board from requiring Negro pupils to attend or not to attend particular public schools because of their race. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Joseph P.... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Gibson V. Board of Public Instruction of Dade County, Fla. 272 F.2d 763, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 17814 (11/24/1959) Negro pupils brought suit against board of public instruction of county and others for an order that board desegregate public schools of county and to enjoin board from requiring Negro pupils to attend or not to attend particular public schools because of their race. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Joseph P.... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Gilmore V. City of Montgomery, Ala. 176 F.Supp. 776, United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division, Docket Number CIV. 1490-N (9/9/1959) Action by Negro citizens for judgment declaring that ordinance was unconstitutional and for injunction. The District Court, Johnson, J., held that ordinance of city making it misdemeanor for white and colored persons to enter upon, visit, use or in any way occupy public parks, except those assigned to their respective races, was unconstitutional... 1959 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Gilmore V. City of Montgomery, Ala. 176 F.Supp. 776, United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division, Docket Number CIV. 1490-N (9/9/1959) Action by Negro citizens for judgment declaring that ordinance was unconstitutional and for injunction. The District Court, Johnson, J., held that ordinance of city making it misdemeanor for white and colored persons to enter upon, visit, use or in any way occupy public parks, except those assigned to their respective races, was unconstitutional... 1959 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Gomillion V. Lightfoot 270 F.2d 594, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 17589 (9/15/1959) Action for judgment declaring invalid Alabama statute reducing boundaries of City of Tuskegee, assertedly to exclude Negroes from city. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, Frank M. Johnson, Jr., J., 167 F.Supp. 405, rendered judgment adverse to plaintiffs and they appealed. The Court of Appeals, Jones, Circuit... 1959 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Gomillion V. Lightfoot 270 F.2d 594, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 17589 (9/15/1959) Action for judgment declaring invalid Alabama statute reducing boundaries of City of Tuskegee, assertedly to exclude Negroes from city. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, Frank M. Johnson, Jr., J., 167 F.Supp. 405, rendered judgment adverse to plaintiffs and they appealed. The Court of Appeals, Jones, Circuit... 1959 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Hall V. State 215 Ga. 375, Supreme Court of Georgia, Docket Number 20597 (10/9/1959) Defendant after a conviction for voluntary manslaughter filed an extraordinary motion for new trial and to review a judgment of the Superior Court, Fulton County, overruling the motion, the defendant brings error. The Supreme Court, Head, J., held that on extraordinary motion for new trial on the ground that convicted Negro defendant's... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Hall V. State 215 Ga. 375, Supreme Court of Georgia, Docket Number 20597 (10/9/1959) Defendant after a conviction for voluntary manslaughter filed an extraordinary motion for new trial and to review a judgment of the Superior Court, Fulton County, overruling the motion, the defendant brings error. The Supreme Court, Head, J., held that on extraordinary motion for new trial on the ground that convicted Negro defendant's... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Hamm V. County School Bd. Of Arlington County, Va. 263 F.2d 226, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 7776 (1/23/1959) Proceeding on application for transfer of Negro children to white schools, which were near homes of students, each of whom stood above achievement median of white students at such school and who had a common age and who had formerly attended an elementary school together and were presumably friends having common interests. From a supplementary... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Hamm V. County School Bd. Of Arlington County, Va. 263 F.2d 226, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 7776 (1/23/1959) Proceeding on application for transfer of Negro children to white schools, which were near homes of students, each of whom stood above achievement median of white students at such school and who had a common age and who had formerly attended an elementary school together and were presumably friends having common interests. From a supplementary... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Harrison V. Day 200 Va. 439, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (1/19/1959) Original mandamus proceeding. The Supreme Court of Appeals, Eggleston, C. J., held that the constitution section providing that white and colored children should not be taught in same school and the other sections in the constitution article dealing with education and public instruction, including section requiring General Assembly to establish and... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Harrison V. Day 200 Va. 439, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (1/19/1959) Original mandamus proceeding. The Supreme Court of Appeals, Eggleston, C. J., held that the constitution section providing that white and colored children should not be taught in same school and the other sections in the constitution article dealing with education and public instruction, including section requiring General Assembly to establish and... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Harrison V. National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People 360 U.S. 167, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 127 (6/8/1959) Action against Attorney General of Virginia and other officials for declaratory and injunctive relief with respect to certain state statutes. From a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 159 F.Supp. 503, permanently enjoining the Attorney General and other officials from enforcing the statutes, the... 1959 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Harrison V. National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People 360 U.S. 167, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 127 (6/8/1959) Action against Attorney General of Virginia and other officials for declaratory and injunctive relief with respect to certain state statutes. From a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 159 F.Supp. 503, permanently enjoining the Attorney General and other officials from enforcing the statutes, the... 1959 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Henry V. Greenville Airport Commission 175 F.Supp. 343, United States District Court W.D. South Carolina, Greenville Division, Docket Number CIV. 2491 (8/5/1959) Civil rights action was brought against Municipal Airport Commission, members thereof, and airport manager by Negro, who, while sitting in waiting room at airport had been informed by one purporting to be the manager that there was a waiting room for Negroes. The Negro made a motion for a preliminary injunction, and the commission, members thereof,... 1959 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Henry V. Greenville Airport Commission 175 F.Supp. 343, United States District Court W.D. South Carolina, Greenville Division, Docket Number CIV. 2491 (8/5/1959) Civil rights action was brought against Municipal Airport Commission, members thereof, and airport manager by Negro, who, while sitting in waiting room at airport had been informed by one purporting to be the manager that there was a waiting room for Negroes. The Negro made a motion for a preliminary injunction, and the commission, members thereof,... 1959 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Hunt V. Arnold 172 F.Supp. 847, United States District Court N.D. Georgia, Atlanta Division, Docket Number 5781 (1/9/1959) Action for declaratory and injunctive relief in respect to rights of Negroes to be admitted to Georgia State College of Business Administration. The District Court, Sloan, J., held that Negroes who had the scholastic credits and the good moral character sufficient to qualify them to make application for admission to such college, and members of the... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Hunt V. Arnold 172 F.Supp. 847, United States District Court N.D. Georgia, Atlanta Division, Docket Number 5781 (1/9/1959) Action for declaratory and injunctive relief in respect to rights of Negroes to be admitted to Georgia State College of Business Administration. The District Court, Sloan, J., held that Negroes who had the scholastic credits and the good moral character sufficient to qualify them to make application for admission to such college, and members of the... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Jones V. School Bd. Of City of Alexandria, Va. 179 F.Supp. 280, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division, Docket Number CIV. 1770 (12/29/1959) Proceedings on pleading alleging that defendants' refusal to admit 17 Negro pupils to certain schools in city contravened injunction theretofore issued in cause. The District Court, Albert V. Bryan, Chief Judge, held that the preference for actual accomplishment over I.Q. has the backing of reputable educators and therefore cannot be condemned as... 1959 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Jones V. School Bd. Of City of Alexandria, Va. 179 F.Supp. 280, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Alexandria Division, Docket Number CIV. 1770 (12/29/1959) Proceedings on pleading alleging that defendants' refusal to admit 17 Negro pupils to certain schools in city contravened injunction theretofore issued in cause. The District Court, Albert V. Bryan, Chief Judge, held that the preference for actual accomplishment over I.Q. has the backing of reputable educators and therefore cannot be condemned as... 1959 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Kelley V. Board of Ed. Of City of Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn. 270 F.2d 209, United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit, 13749, Docket Number 13748 (6/17/1959) School desegregation case. The District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division, William E. Miller, J., approved desegregation plan, and the plaintiffs appealed and the defendants cross-appealed. The Court of Appeals, McAllister, Circuit Judge, held that evidence disclosed that plan providing for... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Kelley V. Board of Ed. Of City of Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn. 270 F.2d 209, United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit, Docket Number 13749, 13748 (6/17/1959) School desegregation case. The District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division, William E. Miller, J., approved desegregation plan, and the plaintiffs appealed and the defendants cross-appealed. The Court of Appeals, McAllister, Circuit Judge, held that evidence disclosed that plan providing for... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Levitt & Sons, Inc. V. Division Against Discrimination in State Dept. Of Ed. 56 N.J.Super. 542, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, Docket Number A-335, A-334 (7/22/1959) Actions, by housing developers, in lieu of prerogative writs, challenging asserted jurisdiction of State Division Against Discrimination over complaints against plaintiffs, charging them with violating state statutes forbidding discrimination in publicly assisted housing. The Superior Court, Law Division, dismissed the complaints, and plaintiffs... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Levitt & Sons, Inc. V. Division Against Discrimination in State Dept. Of Ed. 56 N.J.Super. 542, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, Docket Number A-335, A-334 (7/22/1959) Actions, by housing developers, in lieu of prerogative writs, challenging asserted jurisdiction of State Division Against Discrimination over complaints against plaintiffs, charging them with violating state statutes forbidding discrimination in publicly assisted housing. The Superior Court, Law Division, dismissed the complaints, and plaintiffs... 1959 Cases Yes  
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