AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Robinson V. Brown 320 F.2d 503, United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit, Docket Number 15431 (7/31/1963) Proceeding for writ of mandamus requiring United States District Court for Western District of Tennessee, Bailey Brown, J., to vacate its order striking petitioner's demand for a jury trial in a desegregation case against petitioner and other defendants. The Court of Appeals held that where summary judgment had been granted to plaintiffs,... 1963 Cases Yes  
  School Board Zoning Decision Presumed Unconstitutional 15 Stanford Law Review 681 (July, 1963) Civil RightsSchools and School DistrictsSegregation.Nine Negro children petitioned to be admitted to a desegregated school outside their designated school district, which was all Negro and small in comparison with the all white and predominantly white surrounding districts. Plaintiffs argued that the local school board by enacting the plan and... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Simkins V. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital 323 F.2d 959, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8908 (11/1/1963) Action by Negro physicians, dentists and patients suing on behalf of themselves and other Negro citizens for declaratory and injunctive relief against defendant hospitals and their administrators and directors for discrimination because of their race. The United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, at Greensboro, Edwin... 1963 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Smith V. City of Birmingham, Ala. 226 F.Supp. 838, United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Southern Division, Docket Number CIV. 10212 (12/12/1963) Negro citizens brought class action against city officials and lessee of city's land on which motel had been constructed for declaratory and injunctive relief against allegedly illegal discrimination against Negroes. The District Court, Grooms, J., held that where city owned land, on which motel was located, and land was part of municipal airport,... 1963 Cases Yes  
  State ex Rel. Lytell V. Louisiana State Bd. Of Health Through Rein 153 So.2d 498, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 1021 (5/6/1963) Mandamus suit by father and three of his children to compel board of health to issue delayed birth certificates declaring them to be white persons and in behalf of a deceased daughter to correct her death certificate which had designated her as colored. The Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, No. 393-647, Division A, Paul E. Chasez,... 1963 Cases Yes  
  State Statute Barring Solicitation of Legal Work Held to Violate Due Process as Applied to Naacp 63 Columbia Law Review 1502 (December, 1963) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the elimination of discriminatory practices against Negroes, was licensed to do business in Virginia, where it supported eighty-nine chapters grouped into the Virginia State Conference of NAACP Branches. The Conference elected, maintained, and paid... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  State V. Arnold 258 N.C. 563, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Docket Number 291 (2/1/1963) Prosecution for murder. The Superior Court, Lenior County, W. H. S. Burgwyn, Emergency Judge, entered judgments of conviction of first degree murder and the defendants appealed. The Supreme Court, Parker, J., held that the Negro defendants had failed to show that members of their own race had been systematically excluded from grand jury which had... 1963 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  State V. Brown 6 Storey 571, Supreme Court of Delaware (11/6/1963) Prosecution under criminal trespass statute based upon refusal of Negro to leave restaurant portion of hotel upon request of the proprietor after he had been denied service solely because of his race. The Superior Court certified the question as to whether judiciary of the state could entertain a trespass prosecution under the circumstances. The... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  State V. Covington 258 N.C. 495, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Docket Number 437 (1/11/1963) Convicted, in the Superior Court, Union County, Robert M. Gambill, J., of criminal offenses, the defendant appealed claiming error in failure to quash indictments assertedly returned by a grand jury from which members of the defendant's race had been intentionally excluded. The Supreme Court, Parker, J., held that court committed reversible error... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  State V. Covington 258 N.C. 501, Supreme Court of North Carolina, 440, 438, Docket Number 439 (1/11/1963) Convicted, in the Superior Court, Union County, Robert M. Gambill, J., on his pleas of guilty to indictments which he had previously moved to quash for asserted intentional exclusion of Negroes from grand jury, defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Parker, J., held that defendant's guilty pleas did not constitute waiver of objection to grand jury.... 1963 Cases Yes  
  State V. Fleming 243 S.C. 265, Supreme Court of South Carolina, Docket Number 18121 (11/12/1963) Defendants were convicted of conspiring to defraud an insurer by procuring life policies on forged applications without insureds' knowledge. The General Sessions Court, Clarendon County, Steve C. Griffith, J., entered judgment, and the defendants appealed. The Supreme Court, Brailsford, J., held that facts that only one Negro had ever served on... 1963 Cases Yes  
  State V. Goree 245 La. 389, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 46531 (11/12/1963) Convicted of aggravated battery, in the Third Judicial District Court, Parish of Lincoln, J. R. Dawkins, J., defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Sanders, J., held that record did not reveal exclusion of Negroes on account of race from general venire and petit jury list. Affirmed. McCaleb and Hamlin, JJ., dissented. 1963 Cases Yes  
  State V. Woods 191 Kan. 433, Supreme Court of Kansas, Docket Number 43401 (5/11/1963) Prosecution for first degree kidnaping and for forcible rape. The Bourbon District Court, Robert H. Miller, J., entered judgments of conviction and the defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Jackson, J., held that Negro defendant failed to establish that Negroes were discriminatorily excluded from jury duty in county, where it was shown that four... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Statom V. Board of Com'rs of Prince George's County 233 Md. 57, Court of Appeals of Maryland, Docket Number 59 (11/14/1963) Negro boys brought class suit against public officials to enjoin use of public facilities by private boys' club, which was segregated, until club should operate on a nonsegregated basis. The Circuit Court for Prince George's County, Ralph W. Powers, J., entered an order sustaining demurrers to and dismissing amended bill of complaint, and the Negro... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Stell V. Savannah-chatham County Bd. Of Ed. 220 F.Supp. 667, United States District Court S.D. Georgia, Savannah Division, Docket Number CIV. 1316 (6/28/1963) Class action to enjoin a board of education from operating a bi-racial school system. The District Court, Scarlett, J., held that evidence established non-existence of injury to white or Negro children from segregated schooling and existence of injury to both from forced integration. Injunction denied and complaint dismissed with further provisions... 1963 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Stout V. Construction and General Laborers Dist. Council of Chicago and Vicinity 226 F.Supp. 673, United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division, Docket Number 63 C 494 (12/31/1963) Action by members of local unions against officers of local unions, international union and district council alleging discrimination because of race. The District Court, Decker, J., held that action based on alleged discrimination in employment could not be maintained under Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act on theory that as result of... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Supreme Court Declines to Consider Whether Due Process Requires Impartial Grand Juries on Record Presenting Speculative Evidence of Bias 111 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1000 (May, 1963) Acting upon information uncovered by the McClellan Committee's labor racketeering hearings of 1957, the State of Washington convened a special grand jury to investigate David D. Beck. After the return of an indictment charging grand larceny, Beck moved to dismiss the bill on the ground that the impaneling judge had failed to examine the prospective... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Swain V. State 275 Ala. 508, Supreme Court of Alabama, Docket Number 7 DIV. 581 (9/5/1963) Prosecution on charge of rape. From an adverse judgment of the Circuit Court, Talladega County, Wm. C. Sullivan, J., the defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, Goodwyn, J., held that evidence in support of a motion to quash indictment of Negro on ground of race discrimination in selection of grand jury was insufficient to make a prima facie case.... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Taylor V. Board of Educ. Of City School Dist. Of City of New Rochelle 221 F.Supp. 275, United States District Court S.D. New York (6/24/1963) School desegregation case. The District Court, Kaufman, Circuit Judge, held that when an old centrally located elementary school, which had been desegregated pursuant to plan of free optional transfer, was closed, the decree was modified to provide free bus transportation of pupils and their assignment by school board to other schools on basis of... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Thaxton V. Vaughan 321 F.2d 474, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8874 (6/6/1963) Action by Negroes to desegregate municipal nursing home and armory. The United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, at Lynchburg, Thomas J. Michie, J., denied the relief, and the plaintiffs appealed. The Court of Appeals, J. Spencer Bell, Circuit Judge, held that Negroes who were neither aged nor chronically ill had no... 1963 Cases Yes  
  The Federal Voting Referee Plan and the Alteration of State Voting Standards 72 Yale Law Journal 770 (March, 1963) Possible legislation to combat voter discrimination can be considered in one of two categories. Such legislation can either recognize that state standards are being used to further discrimination and seek to eliminate them, alter them, or equate them with some easily provable requirement; or it can work within the presumption of nondiscriminatory... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Todd V. Joint Apprenticeship Committee of Steel Workers of Chicago 223 F.Supp. 12, United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division, Docket Number 63 C 1739 (10/16/1963) Negroes brought class action against union, union officers, apprenticeship committee of union, contractor, subcontractor, regional administrator of the General Services Administration, the regional director of the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, and the Board of Education of the City of Chicago to enjoin discrimination against negroes with... 1963 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
William A. Hillhouse II Transfer by City Held Effective to Avoid Finding of State Action 16 Stanford Law Review 197 (December, 1963) Constitutional LawState ActionCivil RightsHospitals.Negro plaintiffs sued to enjoin segregation of patients by race in a municipal hospital. Subsequently, the Municipal Hospital Authority transferred the hospital to a newly formed nonprofit, nonstock corporation under a self-perpetuating board of trustees, the members of which were the... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  U. S. ex Rel. Scott V. Walker 218 F.Supp. 866, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division, Docket Number MISC. 622 (7/9/1963) Habeas corpus proceeding by state prisoner. The District Court, West, J., held that evidence failed to establish that there had been a systematic exclusion or systematic token inclusion of Negroes from petit jury in the state criminal prosecution. Application denied. 1963 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  U.s. V. Atkins 323 F.2d 733, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 20325 (10/3/1963) Action by the United States under the Civil Rights Act for injunctive relief against a State and a County Board of Registrars in regard to alleged racially discriminatory acts and practices in registration of voters. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, Daniel Holcombe Thomas, J., 210 F.Supp. 441, denied the... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  U.s. V. Biloxi Municipal School Dist. 219 F.Supp. 691, United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Southern Division, Docket Number CIV. 2678, CIV. 2643 (5/16/1963) Actions by United States to enjoin school district and officers from separating, on basis of race or color, any dependents of military personnel or civilian employees of United States in operation of public schools in the district. The District Court, Mize, J., on motion to dismiss, held that the United States has no cause of action and no standing... 1963 Cases Yes  
  U.s. V. City of Jackson, Miss. 318 F.2d 1, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, 157596, Docket Number 19794 (5/13/1963) Action by United States and Interstate Commerce Commission against city, city commissioners, city chief of police, bus companies, and railroad for injunctive relief against racial segregation in city rail and bus terminals. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Sidney Mize, J., 206 F.Supp. 45, denied motion for... 1963 Cases Yes Overruling Risk
  U.s. V. County School Bd. Of Prince George County, Va. 221 F.Supp. 93, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Richmond Division, Docket Number CIV. 3536 (6/24/1963) Suit by the United States for an injunction requiring county school board, pupil placement board and state to admit Negro children who were dependents of personnel stationed at military reservation to attend schools attended only by white pupils, wherein relief was sought under the School Facilities Construction Act and under the war powers clause... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  U.s. V. Dogan 314 F.2d 767, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 19638 (1/26/1963) United States' action under civil rights statutes against county sheriff and tax collector, state, and others, for injunctive relief against alleged discrimination against citizens because of race in acceptance of payments of poll taxes. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, Claude F. Clayton, J., 206 F.Supp.... 1963 Cases Yes  
  U.s. V. Madison County Bd. Of Ed. 219 F.Supp. 60, United States District Court N.D. Alabama, Northeastern Division, Docket Number CIV. 63-23 (5/29/1963) Action by United States to enjoin the separation upon the basis of race or color of dependents of military personnel or civilian employees in the operation of local school system under state school placement law. The District Court, Grooms, J., held that the United States was without authority to institute the action. Action dismissed. 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
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