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  Brief and Argument of Respondent, Anderson V. Alabama Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 326 (3/17/1961) The opinion of the Court of Appeals of Alabama is reported as follows: Lewis Lloyd Anderson v. State of Alabama, 40 Ala. App. 509, 120 So. 2d 397. The opinion of the Supreme Court of... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief for Appellant, Hoyt V. Florida Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 31 (9/1/1961) The opinions of the Supreme Court of Florida (R. 30-47) are reported in 119 So. 2nd 691. Jurisdiction of this Court rests on 28 U.S.C. §1257(2) and 28 U.S.C. §1257(3). Appellant was... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief for Appellant, Turner V. City of Memphis Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 84 (12/4/1961) The per curiam opinion below is unreported but appears at pages A1-A3 of the Jurisdictional Statement. The jurisdiction of this Court is invoked pursuant to the provisions of Title 28,... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief for Appellants, Baker V. Carr Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 6 (2/21/1961) The Opinion of the District Court of the United States for the District of Tennessee is reported at 179 F. Supp. 824 (M.D. Tenn. 1959). This suit was brought under 28 U.S.C. § 1343 (3) and... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief for Appellants, Charles W. Baker, et Al., Appellants, V. Joe C. Carr, et Al., Appellees. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 6 (2/21/1961) The Opinion of the District Court of the United States for the District of Tennessee is reported at 179 F. Supp. 824 (M.D. Tenn. 1959). This suit was brought under 28 U.S.C. § 1343 (3) and... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief for Petitioner, Gibson V. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 6 (9/28/1961) The opinion of the Supreme Court of Florida (R. 262) is reported at 126 So. 2d 129. The judgment of the Supreme Court of Florida was entered on December 19, 1960 (R. 262). Application for... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief for Petitioner, N.a.a.c.p. V. Gray Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 5 (9/25/1961) The opinion of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (R. 508) is reported at 202 Va. 142, 116 S. E. 2d 55. The opinion of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief for Petitioners, Garner V. Louisiana Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number Nos. 26, 27, 28 (8/25/1961) The brief opinions rendered in these cases by the Supreme Court of Louisiana, refusing petitioners' applications for writs of certiorari, mandamus and prohibition, and finding no error in... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae, Baker V. Carr Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 6 (3/14/1961) The opinion of Judge Miller of the District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on convening a three-judge district court (R. 88) is reported at 175 F. Supp. 649. The opinion of the... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae, Charles W. Baker, et Al., Appellants, V. Joe C. Carr, et Al. Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 6 (3/14/1961) The opinion of Judge Miller of the District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee on convening a three-judge district court (R. 88) is reported at 175 F. Supp. 649. The opinion of the... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae, Garner V. Louisiana Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number Nos. 26, 27, 28 (9/11/1961) The opinions of the Supreme Court of Louisiana in Garner (G. 53), Briscoe (B. 56), and Hoston (H. 55-56) and of the Nineteenth Judicial District Court of Louisiana in each of these cases... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief in Opposition to Motion to Dismiss or Affirm, Scholle V. Hare Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 22 (1/20/1961) Appellee has moved to dismiss or affirm on grounds that the questions presented are insubstantial. We reply to appellee's contentions seriatim. Appellee's fleeting contention that the... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief of Respondent, Eagle Coffee Shoppe, Inc., Burton V. the Wilmington Parking Authority Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 164 (1/18/1961) The only questions of law that should be considered, it is respectfully submitted, are the following: 1. Should this Court take jurisdiction of the appeal? 2. Has there been a violation of... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief of the Appellee, Hoyt V. Florida Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 31 (9/16/1961) In essence but two points are posed for determination by this Court, to-wit: This of course becomes a question of the constitutionality of Section 40.01, supra. The remaining point is:... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief of the Florida Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union, Amici Curiae, Hoyt V. Florida Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 31 (8/23/1961) The American Civil Liberties Union and the Florida Civil Liberties Union, appear herein as Amici Curiae upon consent of the parties hereto, filed with the Clerk of the Court. The American... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief on Behalf of Respondent State of Louisiana, Garner V. Louisiana Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number Nos. 26, 27, 28 (10/4/1961) In our Brief in Opposition to the Application for Writs of Certiorari which was previously filed, we discussed the various legal questions and defenses raised by these defendants from the... 1961 Briefs    
  Brief upon Reargument, for Appellees, S. B. Street, Nancy M. Looper, Hazel E. Cobb, J. H. Davis, Mrs. Edna Fritschel, Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson, and Others Similarly Situated, Intern. Ass'n of Machinists V. S. B. Street Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 4 (1/5/1961) Six employees of the Southern Railway System, on behalf of themselves and fellow workers similarly situated, after litigating for seven years in the Courts of Georgia, obtained rulings that... 1961 Briefs    
  Chicago, R. I. & P. R. Co. V. Switchmen's Union of North America 292 F.2d 61, United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit, Docket Number 26739, 387 (6/9/1961) Action to enjoin a strike by switchmen, wherein railroads moved for a temporary injunction. The United States District Court for the Western District of New York, John O. Henderson, J., 187 F.Supp. 581, issued a temporary injunction and the union appealed. The Court of Appeals, Friendly, Circuit Judge, held that, assuming but without deciding, that... 1961 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  City of Atlanta V. Hilltop Apartments, Inc. 216 Ga. 782, Supreme Court of Georgia, Docket Number 21183 (4/6/1961) Property owners' action to enjoin the municipality from making levy upon property. The Superior Court, Fulton County, entered a judgment overruling the demurrers to the petition, and the municipality brought error. The Supreme Court, Duckworth, C. J., held that the statute relating to taxation by a municipality to support separate school systems... 1961 Cases    
  Deerfield Park Dist. V. Progress Development Corp. 22 Ill.2d 132, Supreme Court of Illinois, Docket Number 36207 (4/26/1961) Consolidated condemnation cases. The Circuit Court, Lake County, Bernard M. Decker, J., granted a motion to strike certain grounds of the condemnee's motion to dismiss the petition, and rendered a judgment ordering that title vest in the petitioner, and the condemnee appealed. The Supreme Court, Solfisburg, J., held that the alleged use of the... 1961 Cases    
  Dunlap V. Beaty 239 S.C. 196, Supreme Court of South Carolina, Docket Number 17838 (10/2/1961) Action for declaratory judgment that a covenant should be annulled. The Common Pleas Court, York County, George T. Gregory, Jr., J., issued decree from which grantor appealed. The Supreme Court, Oxner, J., held that evidence supported finding that purpose of covenant prohibiting use of certain land as store or for conduct of mercantile business was... 1961 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Federal Constitutional Limitations on State Power over Political Subdivisions 61 Columbia Law Review 704 (April, 1961) Under the American constitutional system, a great many governmental functions reside in the various states. To carry out these responsibilities effectively, all states have chosen to establish political subdivisions to which governmental authority over local matters is delegated. Because political subdivisions, as well as election districts... 1961 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  Ferro V. Railway Exp. Agency, Inc. 296 F.2d 847, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, Docket Number 26940, 31 (12/12/1961) An action by employees against their employer, their union, and certain officers and agents of the union to obtain damages for the loss of work resulting from a loss of seniority and to obtain reinstatement in their old positions on the new seniority rosters in the districts to which the positions had been transferred. The United States District... 1961 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Garner V. State of La. 368 U.S. 157, Supreme Court of the United States, 26, 27, Docket Number 28 (12/11/1961) Prosecutions for disturbing the peace by sitting at white lunch counters' in business establishments. From adverse judgments of the Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge, the defendants appealed. The Louisiana Supreme Court denied post-conviction review through writs of certiorari, mandamus and prohibition, and the United... 1961 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled and overruling risk
  Gast V. Gorek 211 N.Y.S.2d 112, Supreme Court, Suffolk County, New York, Special Term, Part I (1/16/1961) Action by owner of realty to have declared void a racial restrictive covenant, and a covenant of reverter in a deed to a predecessor in interest. Owner moved for an order striking answer of... 1961 Trial Court Orders    
  Griffin V. State 225 Md. 422, Court of Appeals of Maryland, Docket Number 248 (6/8/1961) The defendants were convicted of the crime of willful trespass by judgments of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, James H. Pugh, J., and they appealed. The Court of Appeals, Horney, J., held that as to the first group of defendants, their refusal to leave amusement park after specific notice to do so constituted wilful trespass in violation... 1961 Cases   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Hall V. St. Helena Parish School Bd. 197 F.Supp. 649, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division, Docket Number CIV. 1068 (8/30/1961) Proceeding attacking the constitutionality of a statute which authorized the school board of a municipally operated school system to close the public school system upon the vote of the electors and which provided that the board might then lease or sell any school building, but which required extensive state control and financial aid to the alleged... 1961 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Harrison V. Tucker 342 S.W.2d 383, Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth, Docket Number 16183 (1/6/1961) Suit by white property owners to enjoin defendant from offering his house for sale to any non-Caucasian and from erecting signs. The District Court, Dallas County, Paine L. Bush, J., rendered judgment for plaintiffs and defendant appealed. The Court of Civil Appeals, Renfro, J., held that fact that plaintiffs would suffer depreciation of value of... 1961 Cases    
  Harry Winston, Inc. V. Zale Jewelry Co. 191 F.Supp. 686, United States District Court S.D. New York (1/11/1961) Unfair competition action against a Texas corporation predicated upon allegedly tortious acts occurring in Texas. On the plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction and on the defendant's motion for transfer of the case, the District Court, Herlands, J., held that the motion for transfer would be granted and that the motion for a preliminary... 1961 Cases    
  Henderson V. Trailway Bus Co. 194 F.Supp. 423, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, at Richmond, Docket Number CIV. 3163, CIV.3148 (3/24/1961) Suits for restraint of enforcement of the criminal trespass statutes of Virginia and a declaration of their invalidity. The District Court, Albert V. Bryan, J., held that the statutes were not invalid and that persons charged with violation of them were not entitled to federal injunction where they had opportunity to defend the criminal... 1961 Cases    
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