AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Marshall V. Central of Georgia Ry. Co. 268 F.2d 445, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 17438 (6/30/1959) Suit for civil contempt brought by five Negro firemen against a Railroad and Brotherhood based upon a prior consent injunction prohibiting racial discrimination in job assignments of Negro firemen employed by railroad. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, 174 F.Supp. 33, William A. Bootle, J., entered a judgment... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Marshall V. Central of Georgia Ry. Co. 268 F.2d 445, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 17438 (6/30/1959) Suit for civil contempt brought by five Negro firemen against a Railroad and Brotherhood based upon a prior consent injunction prohibiting racial discrimination in job assignments of Negro firemen employed by railroad. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, 174 F.Supp. 33, William A. Bootle, J., entered a judgment... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Mckissick V. Durham City Bd. Of Ed. 176 F.Supp. 3, United States District Court M.D. North Carolina, Durham Division, Docket Number C-100-D-58 (9/4/1959) Class action by Negro plaintiffs to have declared the rights of minor plaintiffs and the class of persons they represent to attend public schools of the city of Durham, North Carolina, without discrimination on account of race or color, and for injunctive relief. The District Court, Stanley, J., held that where plaintiffs did not attempt to comply... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Mckissick V. Durham City Bd. Of Ed. 176 F.Supp. 3, United States District Court M.D. North Carolina, Durham Division, Docket Number C-100-D-58 (9/4/1959) Class action by Negro plaintiffs to have declared the rights of minor plaintiffs and the class of persons they represent to attend public schools of the city of Durham, North Carolina, without discrimination on account of race or color, and for injunctive relief. The District Court, Stanley, J., held that where plaintiffs did not attempt to comply... 1959 Cases Yes  
  National Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People V. Bennett 178 F.Supp. 191, United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Western Division, Docket Number CIV. 3664 (10/8/1959) Action by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for declaratory judgment to effect that certain Acts of Arkansas legislature were in violation of federal Constitution and to restrain enforcement of those acts. The three-judge District Court held, inter alia, that in view of questions raised as to applicability of statutes to... 1959 Cases Yes  
  National Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People V. Bennett 178 F.Supp. 191, United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Western Division, Docket Number CIV. 3664 (10/8/1959) Action by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for declaratory judgment to effect that certain Acts of Arkansas legislature were in violation of federal Constitution and to restrain enforcement of those acts. The three-judge District Court held, inter alia, that in view of questions raised as to applicability of statutes to... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Parham V. Dove 271 F.2d 132, United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit, 16327, Docket Number 16323 (10/8/1959) Class action in equity by school children of the Negro race and their parents and others similarly situated against members of board of directors of school district, and district to compel admission of children to white schools within district. The United States District Court for Eastern District of Arkansas, Axel J. Beck, J., 176 F.Supp. 242,... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Parham V. Dove 271 F.2d 132, United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit, Docket Number 16327, 16323 (10/8/1959) Class action in equity by school children of the Negro race and their parents and others similarly situated against members of board of directors of school district, and district to compel admission of children to white schools within district. The United States District Court for Eastern District of Arkansas, Axel J. Beck, J., 176 F.Supp. 242,... 1959 Cases Yes  
  People V. Winters 171 Cal.App.2d Supp. 876, Appellate Department, Superior Court, Los Angeles County, California, Docket Number CR 4066 (6/30/1959) Prosecutions for gambling. The Municipal Court, Los Angeles Judicial District, David W. Williams, J., entered orders dismissing the complaints, without trial, in furtherance of justice on ground that there had been a discriminatory enforcement of the gambling laws, and the people appealed. The Superior Court, Appellate Department, David, J., held... 1959 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  People V. Winters 171 Cal.App.2d Supp. 876, Appellate Department, Superior Court, Los Angeles County, California, Docket Number CR 4066 (6/30/1959) Prosecutions for gambling. The Municipal Court, Los Angeles Judicial District, David W. Williams, J., entered orders dismissing the complaints, without trial, in furtherance of justice on ground that there had been a discriminatory enforcement of the gambling laws, and the people appealed. The Superior Court, Appellate Department, David, J., held... 1959 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Predominantly Negro School with less than Proportionate Number of Licensed Teachers Denied Equal Educational Opportunity and Barred Adjudication of Neglect for Withdrawal of Child from School 107 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1053 (May, 1959) Respondent parents were brought before a Domestic Relations Court of the City of New York and charged with neglect of their twelve-year-old daughter by refusing to send her to Junior High School 136, a school located in an almost exclusively Negro and Puerto Rican residential district. The parents contended that their child's constitutionally... 1959 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Predominantly Negro School with less than Proportionate Number of Licensed Teachers Denied Equal Educational Opportunity and Barred Adjudication of Neglect for Withdrawal of Child from School 107 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1053 (May, 1959) Respondent parents were brought before a Domestic Relations Court of the City of New York and charged with neglect of their twelve-year-old daughter by refusing to send her to Junior High School 136, a school located in an almost exclusively Negro and Puerto Rican residential district. The parents contended that their child's constitutionally... 1959 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
Louis H. Pollak Racial Discrimination and Judicial Integrity: a Reply to Professor Wechsler 108 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1 (November, 1959) To the great and on-going public debate on the proper scope of judicial review, notable contributions have been forthcoming from two distinguished students of the Supreme Court who have, last year and this, delivered the annual Holmes Lecture at Harvard. The first of these contributions is Learned Hand's eloquent essay The Bill of Rights. The... 1959 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
Louis H. Pollak Racial Discrimination and Judicial Integrity: a Reply to Professor Wechsler 108 University of Pennsylvania Law Review Rev. 1 (November, 1959) To the great and on-going public debate on the proper scope of judicial review, notable contributions have been forthcoming from two distinguished students of the Supreme Court who have, last year and this, delivered the annual Holmes Lecture at Harvard. The first of these contributions is Learned Hand's eloquent essay The Bill of Rights. The... 1959 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Racial Discrimination in Housing 107 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 515 (February, 1959) Among the problems fostered by racial discrimination in the United States is that of inadequate housing available to members of minority groups. General housing shortages are intensified for minority group members because of special restrictions on the market in which they can buy or rent. These restrictions are both economic and social. The... 1959 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Racial Discrimination in Housing 107 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 515 (February, 1959) Among the problems fostered by racial discrimination in the United States is that of inadequate housing available to members of minority groups. General housing shortages are intensified for minority group members because of special restrictions on the market in which they can buy or rent. These restrictions are both economic and social. The... 1959 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Reed V. Hollywood Professional School 169 Cal.App.2d Supp. 887, Appellate Department, Superior Court, Los Angeles County, California, Docket Number CA 9703 (4/13/1959) Action for damages for refusal of a private school to enroll minor Negro. The Municipal Court of Los Angeles District, Vernon W. Hunt, J., rendered judgment of nonsuit, and minor's guardian ad litem appealed. The Appellate Department of the Superior Court, County of Los Angeles, Huls, J., held that where school had no monopoly and legislature... 1959 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Reed V. Hollywood Professional School 169 Cal.App.2d Supp. 887, Appellate Department, Superior Court, Los Angeles County, California, Docket Number CA 9703 (4/13/1959) Action for damages for refusal of a private school to enroll minor Negro. The Municipal Court of Los Angeles District, Vernon W. Hunt, J., rendered judgment of nonsuit, and minor's guardian ad litem appealed. The Appellate Department of the Superior Court, County of Los Angeles, Huls, J., held that where school had no monopoly and legislature... 1959 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  School Bd. Of City of Charlottesville, Va., V. Allen 263 F.2d 295, United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 7794 (1/30/1959) Application for Stay Before a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit. Application to a single judge of the Court of Appeals to stay a decree of the District Court, John Paul, J., which required admission of Negro students to formerly white public schools. Sobeloff, Chief Judge, held that where school board of Charlottesville... 1959 Cases Yes  
  School Bd. Of City of Charlottesville, Va., V. Allen 263 F.2d 295, United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 7794 (1/30/1959) Application for Stay Before a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit. Application to a single judge of the Court of Appeals to stay a decree of the District Court, John Paul, J., which required admission of Negro students to formerly white public schools. Sobeloff, Chief Judge, held that where school board of Charlottesville... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Sharp V. Lucky 266 F.2d 342, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 17571 (4/30/1959) Action for declaratory and injunctive relief against alleged action of registrar of voters for a parish in violating the rights of plaintiff and other Negroes in segregating white and Negro races in Her office. From a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Ben C. Dawkins, Jr., Chief Judge, 165 F.Supp.... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Sharp V. Lucky 266 F.2d 342, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 17571 (4/30/1959) Action for declaratory and injunctive relief against alleged action of registrar of voters for a parish in violating the rights of plaintiff and other Negroes in segregating white and Negro races in Her office. From a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Ben C. Dawkins, Jr., Chief Judge, 165 F.Supp.... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Shelton V. Mckinley 174 F.Supp. 351, United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Western Division, Docket Number CIV. 3708 (6/8/1959) Class action by Negro school teacher and others against school boards and others for declaratory and injunctive relief against statutes relating to employment of school teachers. The District Court held that statute making any member of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ineligible for public employment in state of Arkansas... 1959 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Shelton V. Mckinley 174 F.Supp. 351, United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Western Division, Docket Number CIV. 3708 (6/8/1959) Class action by Negro school teacher and others against school boards and others for declaratory and injunctive relief against statutes relating to employment of school teachers. The District Court held that statute making any member of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ineligible for public employment in state of Arkansas... 1959 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Smith V. Faubus 230 Ark. 831, Supreme Court of Arkansas, Docket Number 5-1810 (9/14/1959) Negro ministers brought suit against the members of the State Sovereignty Commission for declaratory judgment that Act No. 83 of the Acts of 1957, creating the State Sovereignty Commission, defining its powers, and duties, and attempting to preserve the state's sovereignty against gradual encroachments of the federal government, and Act No. 85... 1959 Cases Yes  
  Smith V. Faubus 230 Ark. 831, Supreme Court of Arkansas, Docket Number 5-1810 (9/14/1959) Negro ministers brought suit against the members of the State Sovereignty Commission for declaratory judgment that Act No. 83 of the Acts of 1957, creating the State Sovereignty Commission, defining its powers, and duties, and attempting to preserve the state's sovereignty against gradual encroachments of the federal government, and Act No. 85... 1959 Cases Yes  
  State V. Scott 237 La. 71, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 44361 (3/23/1959) Defendant was convicted of rape. The Twenty-first Judicial District Court, Parish of Livingston, H. R. Reid, J., rendered judgment and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, McCaleb, J., held, inter alia, that record failed to sustain defendant's contention that Negroes had been systematically excluded from jury service. Affirmed. 1959 Cases Yes  
  State V. Scott 237 La. 71, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 44361 (3/23/1959) Defendant was convicted of rape. The Twenty-first Judicial District Court, Parish of Livingston, H. R. Reid, J., rendered judgment and defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, McCaleb, J., held, inter alia, that record failed to sustain defendant's contention that Negroes had been systematically excluded from jury service. Affirmed. 1959 Cases Yes  
  Statement as to Jurisdiction, Nat. Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People V. Bennett Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 757 (3/9/1959) Appellant appeals from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas entered on January 17, 1959, staying proceedings and retaining jurisdiction... 1959 Briefs Yes  
  Statement as to Jurisdiction, Nat. Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People V. Bennett Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 757 (3/9/1959) Appellant appeals from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas entered on January 17, 1959, staying proceedings and retaining jurisdiction... 1959 Briefs Yes  
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