AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Everett V. Harron 380 Pa. 123, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1/3/1955) Action to enjoin operators of a recreation park from refusing to admit plaintiffs and others. The Court of Common Pleas, No. 2 Philadelphia County, as of June Term, 1952, No. 6090, Lewis, P. J., rendered a decree granting an injunction restraining defendants from refusing to admit to their premises plaintiffs or any others on sole ground of race or... 1955 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Fayson V. Beard 134 F.Supp. 379, United States District Court E.D. Texas, Beaumont Division, Docket Number 2920 (9/7/1955) Negroes brought suit against city officials for declaratory judgment that Negroes were deprived of their civil rights by refusal of city officials to permit Negroes to use city parks, and for injunction. The District Court, Cecil, J., held that Negroes were entitled to the free, unconditional, and unrestricted use and enjoyment of city parks, and... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Fayson V. Beard 134 F.Supp. 379, United States District Court E.D. Texas, Beaumont Division, Docket Number 2920 (9/7/1955) Negroes brought suit against city officials for declaratory judgment that Negroes were deprived of their civil rights by refusal of city officials to permit Negroes to use city parks, and for injunction. The District Court, Cecil, J., held that Negroes were entitled to the free, unconditional, and unrestricted use and enjoyment of city parks, and... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Flemming V. South Carolina Elec. & Gas Co. 224 F.2d 752, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 6995 (7/14/1955) Action by Negro woman against bus company for damages on account of bus driver's requiring her to change her seat in accordance with South Carolina segregation law. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina, G. B. Timmerman, J., 128 F.Supp. 469, dismissed action, and plaintiff appealed. The Court of Appeals held... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Flemming V. South Carolina Elec. & Gas Co. 224 F.2d 752, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 6995 (7/14/1955) Action by Negro woman against bus company for damages on account of bus driver's requiring her to change her seat in accordance with South Carolina segregation law. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina, G. B. Timmerman, J., 128 F.Supp. 469, dismissed action, and plaintiff appealed. The Court of Appeals held... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Flemming V. South Carolina Elec. & Gas. Co. 128 F.Supp. 469, United States District Court, E.D. South Carolina, Columbia Division, Docket Number CIV. 4386 (2/16/1955) Action by Negro woman against bus company for alleged violations of her civil rights. The District Court, Timmerman, Chief Judge, held that fact that bus driver, under color of state law, required Negro woman to sit in seat and to use bus exit which had been reserved for exclusive occupancy and use of Negroes did not constitute a violation of her... 1955 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Flemming V. South Carolina Elec. & Gas. Co. 128 F.Supp. 469, United States District Court, E.D. South Carolina, Columbia Division, Docket Number CIV. 4386 (2/16/1955) Action by Negro woman against bus company for alleged violations of her civil rights. The District Court, Timmerman, Chief Judge, held that fact that bus driver, under color of state law, required Negro woman to sit in seat and to use bus exit which had been reserved for exclusive occupancy and use of Negroes did not constitute a violation of her... 1955 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Fletcher V. Coney Island, Inc. 100 Ohio App. 259, Court of Appeals of Ohio, First District, Hamilton County (4/4/1955) Action by Negro against operator of amusement place to obtain an injunction restraining operator from denying Negro admission to park and an opportunity to fully enjoy its facilities. The Court of Common Pleas, Hamilton County, Weber, J., 121 N.E.2d 574, granted injunction and operator appealed on questions of law. The Court of Appeals, Matthews,... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Fletcher V. Coney Island, Inc. 100 Ohio App. 259, Court of Appeals of Ohio, First District, Hamilton County (4/4/1955) Action by Negro against operator of amusement place to obtain an injunction restraining operator from denying Negro admission to park and an opportunity to fully enjoy its facilities. The Court of Common Pleas, Hamilton County, Weber, J., 121 N.E.2d 574, granted injunction and operator appealed on questions of law. The Court of Appeals, Matthews,... 1955 Cases Yes  
Robert Braucher Foreword 69 Harvard Law Review 120 (November, 1955) The term just past will be remembered by many as the term in which the Supreme Court remanded the school segregation cases. For others problems of loyalty and security, including some aspects of the privilege against self incrimination, may seem more important. This was also Chief Justice Warren's first full term, and the term in which Mr. Justice... 1955 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
Robert Braucher Foreword 69 Harvard Law Review 120 (November, 1955) The term just past will be remembered by many as the term in which the Supreme Court remanded the school segregation cases. For others problems of loyalty and security, including some aspects of the privilege against self incrimination, may seem more important. This was also Chief Justice Warren's first full term, and the term in which Mr. Justice... 1955 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Fort Miami Raceways, Inc. V. Lucas County Agr. Soc. 133 N.E.2d 382, Court of Appeals of Ohio, Sixth District, Lucas County, Docket Number 4784 (3/1/1955) Suit in equity to avoid forfeiture of lease of portion of fairgrounds. The Common Pleas Court of Lucas County rendered a judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appealed. The Court of Appeals, Griffith, J., held that lease was forfeited when lessee's assignee permitted sale of intoxicating liquors on the premises. Affirmed. Nichols, J., dissented. 1955 Cases Yes  
  Frasier V. Board of Trustees of University of N. C. 134 F.Supp. 589, United States District Court M.D. North Carolina, Docket Number 260-D (9/16/1955) Class action by three Negro youths against the Board of Trustee of the University of North Carolina for declaratory judgment that certain orders of the Board which deny admission of Negroes to undergraduate schools of the University of North Carolina are in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of... 1955 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Frasier V. Board of Trustees of University of N. C. 134 F.Supp. 589, United States District Court M.D. North Carolina, Docket Number 260-D (9/16/1955) Class action by three Negro youths against the Board of Trustee of the University of North Carolina for declaratory judgment that certain orders of the Board which deny admission of Negroes to undergraduate schools of the University of North Carolina are in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of... 1955 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Gainer V. School Bd. Of Jefferson County, Ala. 135 F.Supp. 559, United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Southern Division, Docket Number CIV. 5339 (11/4/1955) Negro school teacher filed a petition for rule to show cause why school board, its members, and superintendent of schools should not be punished for contempt. The District Court, Lynne, Chief Judge, held that federal District Court was without power to impose on school board a compensatory fine in favor of Negro school teachers, to be satisfied out... 1955 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Gainer V. School Bd. Of Jefferson County, Ala. 135 F.Supp. 559, United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Southern Division, Docket Number CIV. 5339 (11/4/1955) Negro school teacher filed a petition for rule to show cause why school board, its members, and superintendent of schools should not be punished for contempt. The District Court, Lynne, Chief Judge, held that federal District Court was without power to impose on school board a compensatory fine in favor of Negro school teachers, to be satisfied out... 1955 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Heyward V. Public Housing Admin. 135 F.Supp. 217, United States District Court S.D. Georgia, Savannah Division, Docket Number CIV. 753 (10/21/1955) Action in form of prayer for declaratory judgment to compel admission of negroes to white public housing project in city of Savannah and also for injunction and for recovery of damages. Upon motion of the Housing Authority and its officers to dismiss, the District Court, Scarlett, J., held that if, as would be assumed without allegation to... 1955 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Heyward V. Public Housing Admin. 135 F.Supp. 217, United States District Court S.D. Georgia, Savannah Division, Docket Number CIV. 753 (10/21/1955) Action in form of prayer for declaratory judgment to compel admission of negroes to white public housing project in city of Savannah and also for injunction and for recovery of damages. Upon motion of the Housing Authority and its officers to dismiss, the District Court, Scarlett, J., held that if, as would be assumed without allegation to... 1955 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Hobson V. York Studios 208 Misc. 888, Municipal Court of the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, Seventh District (10/18/1955) Action by a Negro and his white wife to recover statutory penalty under Civil Rights Law, § 41, for refusal to rent a room in defendant's hotel to plaintiffs because of their race or color. The Municipal Court, Wahl, J., held that the evidence established that both plaintiffs had been discriminated against because of their race in violation of... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Hobson V. York Studios 208 Misc. 888, Municipal Court of the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, Seventh District (10/18/1955) Action by a Negro and his white wife to recover statutory penalty under Civil Rights Law, § 41, for refusal to rent a room in defendant's hotel to plaintiffs because of their race or color. The Municipal Court, Wahl, J., held that the evidence established that both plaintiffs had been discriminated against because of their race in violation of... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Holmes V. City of Atlanta 223 F.2d 93, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 15267 (6/17/1955) Action for a judgment declaring that defendant's refusal to permit plaintiffs and other Negroes to play golf on defendant city's public courses and a city ordinance prohibiting Negroes from frequenting city parks maintained for white people's use are unconstitutional as denying plaintiffs equal protection of laws and for a permanent injunction... 1955 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Holmes V. City of Atlanta 223 F.2d 93, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 15267 (6/17/1955) Action for a judgment declaring that defendant's refusal to permit plaintiffs and other Negroes to play golf on defendant city's public courses and a city ordinance prohibiting Negroes from frequenting city parks maintained for white people's use are unconstitutional as denying plaintiffs equal protection of laws and for a permanent injunction... 1955 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Holt V. Oil Workers Intern. Union Not Reported in S.W.2d, District Court of Texas, Harris County, Docket Number 430707 (9/22/1955) On this, the 22nd day of September, 1955, came on to be heard the above entitled and numbered case; and came the plaintiffs, John Holt, Vertis Harris, and Quincy Bess, individually, and on behalf of and as representing, under Rule 42, all the members of the Negro race who are employees of the Shell Oil Company and Shell Chemical Corporation in... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Holt V. Oil Workers Intern. Union Not Reported in S.W.2d, District Court of Texas, Harris County, Docket Number 430707 (9/22/1955) On this, the 22nd day of September, 1955, came on to be heard the above entitled and numbered case; and came the plaintiffs, John Holt, Vertis Harris, and Quincy Bess, individually, and on behalf of and as representing, under Rule 42, all the members of the Negro race who are employees of the Shell Oil Company and Shell Chemical Corporation in... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Hoxie School Dist. No. 46 of Lawrence County, Ark. V. Brewer 135 F.Supp. 296, United States District Court E.D. Arkansas, Jonesboro Division, Docket Number CIV. J-918 (10/31/1955) Suit by consolidated school district, its directors and superintendent for a declaratory judgment and injunction, wherein complaint alleged that plaintiffs had made administrative findings and holding that school should be opened to both white and Negro children on an integrated basis and that defendants by various acts conspired to prevent... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Hoxie School Dist. No. 46 of Lawrence County, Ark. V. Brewer 135 F.Supp. 296, United States District Court E.D. Arkansas, Jonesboro Division, Docket Number CIV. J-918 (10/31/1955) Suit by consolidated school district, its directors and superintendent for a declaratory judgment and injunction, wherein complaint alleged that plaintiffs had made administrative findings and holding that school should be opened to both white and Negro children on an integrated basis and that defendants by various acts conspired to prevent... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Johnson V. Crawfis 128 F.Supp. 230, United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Western Division, Docket Number CIV 2805 (1/28/1955) Suit by Negro minor who had been adjudged insane by Probate Court and denied admission to State Hospital for Nervous Diseases, against Superintendent of Hospital and members of State Hospital Board alleging that action of Superintendent in refusing plaintiff admission was in violation of his constitutional rights. The District Court, Trimble, Chief... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Johnson V. Crawfis 128 F.Supp. 230, United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Western Division, Docket Number CIV 2805 (1/28/1955) Suit by Negro minor who had been adjudged insane by Probate Court and denied admission to State Hospital for Nervous Diseases, against Superintendent of Hospital and members of State Hospital Board alleging that action of Superintendent in refusing plaintiff admission was in violation of his constitutional rights. The District Court, Trimble, Chief... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Lucy V. Adams 134 F.Supp. 235, United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Western Division, Docket Number 652 (8/26/1955) Action against dean of admissions of state university for declaratory judgment and injunction, brought by applicants who were allegedly refused admittance to university on account of their race and color, for themselves and all other Negroes similarly situated. The District Court, Grooms, J., held that applicants were entitled to decree enjoining... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Lucy V. Adams 134 F.Supp. 235, United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Western Division, Docket Number 652 (8/26/1955) Action against dean of admissions of state university for declaratory judgment and injunction, brought by applicants who were allegedly refused admittance to university on account of their race and color, for themselves and all other Negroes similarly situated. The District Court, Grooms, J., held that applicants were entitled to decree enjoining... 1955 Cases Yes  
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