AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Syres V. Oil Workers Intern. Union, Local No. 23 223 F.2d 739, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 15286 (6/21/1955) Representative action by members of local negro union and such local against class representative of local white union and such other local to enjoin enforcement of and obtain judgment declaring void bargaining agreement which provided for two liens of seniority based upon race. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas,... 1955 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Syres V. Oil Workers Intern. Union, Local No. 23 223 F.2d 739, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 15286 (6/21/1955) Representative action by members of local negro union and such local against class representative of local white union and such other local to enjoin enforcement of and obtain judgment declaring void bargaining agreement which provided for two liens of seniority based upon race. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas,... 1955 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Tate V. Department of Conservation and Development 133 F.Supp. 53, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Norfolk Division, Docket Number CIV. 1295 (7/7/1955) Class action instituted by members of Negro race for declaratory judgment and to enjoin denial of constitutional right of admission to state parks. The District Court, Hoffman, J., held that if the State of Virginia was to operate state parks, it would have to operate them without racial discrimination and that if, instead, it leased the parks, it... 1955 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Tate V. Department of Conservation and Development 133 F.Supp. 53, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Norfolk Division, Docket Number CIV. 1295 (7/7/1955) Class action instituted by members of Negro race for declaratory judgment and to enjoin denial of constitutional right of admission to state parks. The District Court, Hoffman, J., held that if the State of Virginia was to operate state parks, it would have to operate them without racial discrimination and that if, instead, it leased the parks, it... 1955 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
Peter H. Rossi The Negro of the Schools. By Harry S. Ashmore Chapel Hill:university of North Carolina Press. Second Edition. 1954. Pp. 239. $2.75 (Cloth); $1.50 (Paper). 68 Harvard Law Review 1108 (April, 1955) Early in 1953, the Fund for the Advancement of Education, one of the Ford Foundation's many branch operations, decided to undertake an appraisal of the status of Negroes within our educational system. The Fund assembled an impressive team of researchers from the fields of education, law, and social science. In the course of the following year,... 1955 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
Peter H. Rossi The Negro of the Schools. By Harry S. Ashmore Chapel Hill:university of North Carolina Press. Second Edition. 1954. Pp. 239. $2.75 (Cloth); $1.50 (Paper). 68 Harvard Law Review 1108 (April, 1955) Early in 1953, the Fund for the Advancement of Education, one of the Ford Foundation's many branch operations, decided to undertake an appraisal of the status of Negroes within our educational system. The Fund assembled an impressive team of researchers from the fields of education, law, and social science. In the course of the following year,... 1955 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
Alexander M. Bickel The Original Understanding and the Segregation Decision 69 Harvard Law Review 1 (November, 1955) BEFORE setting out on the direct and noble march to the Court's conclusion in the Segregation Cases, Chief Justice Warren took care to post a rear guard. The history of the adoption of the fourteenth amendment, to which reargument in these cases had been largely addressed, though casting some light, was, the Chief Justice said, inconclusive at... 1955 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
Alexander M. Bickel The Original Understanding and the Segregation Decision 69 Harvard Law Review 1 (November, 1955) BEFORE setting out on the direct and noble march to the Court's conclusion in the Segregation Cases, Chief Justice Warren took care to post a rear guard. The history of the adoption of the fourteenth amendment, to which reargument in these cases had been largely addressed, though casting some light, was, the Chief Justice said, inconclusive at... 1955 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  U.s. V. Brandt 139 F.Supp. 349, United States District Court, N.D. Ohio, Eastern Division, Docket Number CRIM. 21076 (7/29/1955) Proceeding upon motion to dismiss indictment on ground that grand jury had been unlawfully constituted. The District Court McNamee, J., held, inter alia, that, in proceeding upon motion to dismiss indictment on ground that grand jury had been unlawfully constituted, evidence was not sufficient to establish a prima facie case of discrimination... 1955 Cases Yes  
  U.s. V. Brandt 139 F.Supp. 349, United States District Court, N.D. Ohio, Eastern Division, Docket Number CRIM. 21076 (7/29/1955) Proceeding upon motion to dismiss indictment on ground that grand jury had been unlawfully constituted. The District Court McNamee, J., held, inter alia, that, in proceeding upon motion to dismiss indictment on ground that grand jury had been unlawfully constituted, evidence was not sufficient to establish a prima facie case of discrimination... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Walker V. State 162 Tex.Crim. 408, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 27390 (2/9/1955) Defendant was convicted of murder. The Criminal District Court, No. 2, Dallas County, Henry King, J., rendered judgment, and defendant appealed. The Court of Criminal Appeals, Morrison, P. J., held, inter alia, that evidence failed to establish that there had been such systematic exclusion of members of colored race in selection of grand jury... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Walker V. State 162 Tex.Crim. 408, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 27390 (2/9/1955) Defendant was convicted of murder. The Criminal District Court, No. 2, Dallas County, Henry King, J., rendered judgment, and defendant appealed. The Court of Criminal Appeals, Morrison, P. J., held, inter alia, that evidence failed to establish that there had been such systematic exclusion of members of colored race in selection of grand jury... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Whitmore V. Stilwell 227 F.2d 187, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 15473 (11/23/1955) Action by Negro minors to enjoin a state junior college from denying them admission thereto solely because of their race. From a judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Joe Warren Sheehy, J., dismissing the action, plaintiffs appealed. The Court of Appeals, Per Curiam, held that plaintiffs having made no effort to prove... 1955 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Whitmore V. Stilwell 227 F.2d 187, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 15473 (11/23/1955) Action by Negro minors to enjoin a state junior college from denying them admission thereto solely because of their race. From a judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Joe Warren Sheehy, J., dismissing the action, plaintiffs appealed. The Court of Appeals, Per Curiam, held that plaintiffs having made no effort to prove... 1955 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Williams V. Mcculley 128 F.Supp. 897, United States District Court, W.D. Louisiana, Alexandria Division, Docket Number CIV. 4541 (1/3/1955) Class action for declaratory judgment, damages and injunctive relief against registrar of voters who allegedly discriminated against plaintiffs who sought to register as voters. Three judge District Court, Hunter, J., held that where exhibits consisting of application cards of prospective voters showed all were rejected because of errors in filling... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Williams V. Mcculley 128 F.Supp. 897, United States District Court, W.D. Louisiana, Alexandria Division, Docket Number CIV. 4541 (1/3/1955) Class action for declaratory judgment, damages and injunctive relief against registrar of voters who allegedly discriminated against plaintiffs who sought to register as voters. Three judge District Court, Hunter, J., held that where exhibits consisting of application cards of prospective voters showed all were rejected because of errors in filling... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Willis V. Walker 136 F.Supp. 177, United States District Court W.D. Kentucky, Bowling Green Division, Docket Number 545 (11/29/1955) Action by Negro citizens for admission to elementary schools and county high school. The District Court, Swinford, J., held that under the circumstances, school officials were directed to admit Negro pupils to county high school by February of succeeding year, and to make integration effective in elementary schools at time of registration for... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Willis V. Walker 136 F.Supp. 177, United States District Court W.D. Kentucky, Bowling Green Division, Docket Number 545 (11/29/1955) Action by Negro citizens for admission to elementary schools and county high school. The District Court, Swinford, J., held that under the circumstances, school officials were directed to admit Negro pupils to county high school by February of succeeding year, and to make integration effective in elementary schools at time of registration for... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Willis V. Walker 136 F.Supp. 181, United States District Court W.D. Kentucky, Docket Number CIV. 545 (11/30/1955) Action to compel racial integration in state school system. The three-judge District Court, Shackelford Miller, Jr., Circuit Judge, held that where, although plaintiffs challenged constitutionality of state statute and constitutional provision authorizing segregation, defendants conceded the unconstitutionality of the provisions, and defended... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Willis V. Walker 136 F.Supp. 181, United States District Court W.D. Kentucky, Docket Number CIV. 545 (11/30/1955) Action to compel racial integration in state school system. The three-judge District Court, Shackelford Miller, Jr., Circuit Judge, held that where, although plaintiffs challenged constitutionality of state statute and constitutional provision authorizing segregation, defendants conceded the unconstitutionality of the provisions, and defended... 1955 Cases Yes  
  Addison V. State 160 Tex.Crim. 1, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 26748 (2/3/1954) Defendant was convicted of murder The 53rd District Court, Travis County, J. Harris Gardner, J., rendered judgment accordingly, and defendant appealed. The Court of Criminal Appeals, Davidson, C., held that testimony of grand jury commissioners established that defendant had not been discriminated against, because of race, in the selection of grand... 1954 Cases Yes  
  Amicus Curiae Brief of the Attorney General of Florida, Brown V. Bd. Of Educ. Of Topeka Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 1 (10/1/1954) A discussion of the reasons for a period of gradual adjustment to desegregation to be permitted in Florida with broad powers of discretion vested in local school authorities to determine... 1954 Briefs Yes  
  Application of the Sherman Act to Housing Segregation 63 Yale Law Journal 1124 (June, 1954) Discriminatory practices by private parties have compelled the Negro to compete for a home on unequal terms with the white. He is faced with substantial restrictions in both the financing and selling phases of housing. Although purely private actions do not violate any civil liberties guaranty, their economic effects may bring them within the... 1954 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Bolling V. Sharpe 347 U.S. 497, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 8 (5/17/1954) Class action by which minor Negro plaintiffs sought to obtain admission to public schools on a nonsegregated basis. The United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed complaint, and plaintiffs were granted certiorari by the Supreme Court before judgment on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of... 1954 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Brief for Appellants in Nos. 1, 2 and 3 and for Respondents in No. 5 on Further Reargument, Brown V. Bd. Of Educ. Of Topeka Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5 (10/1/1954) Questions 4 and 5, left undecided and now the subject of discussion in this brief, follow: 4. Assuming it is decided that segregation in public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment (a)... 1954 Briefs Yes  
  Brief for Appellants in Nos. 1, 2 and 3 and for Respondents in No. 5 on Further Reargument, Brown V. Bd. Of Educ. Of Topeka Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5 (10/1/1954) Questions 4 and 5, left undecided and now the subject of discussion in this brief, follow: 4. Assuming it is decided that segregation in public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment (a)... 1954 Briefs Yes  
  Brief of American Veterans Committee, Inc. (A.v.c.) Amicus Curiae, Brown V. Bd. Of Educ. Of Topeka Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number Nos. 1, 4, 5 (10/1/1954) It is, of course, not appropriate for this Court to try to anticipate the legality of every detail of every desegregation plan which, in the context of the particular pressures and... 1954 Briefs Yes  
  Brief of American Veterans Committee, Inc. (A.v.c.) Amicus Curiae, Brown V. Bd. Of Educ. Of Topeka Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number Nos. 1, 4, 5 (10/1/1954) It is, of course, hot appropriate for this Court to try to anticipate the legality of every detail of every desegregation plan which, in the context of the particular pressures and... 1954 Briefs Yes  
  Brief of American Veterans Committee, Inc. (A.v.c.) Amicus Curiae, Brown V. Bd. Of Educ. Of Topeka Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number Nos. 1, 4, 5 (10/1/1954) It is, of course, not appropriate for this Court to try to anticipate the legality of every detail of every desegregation plan which, in the context of the particular pressures and... 1954 Briefs Yes  
  Brief of John Ben Shepperd, Attorney General of Texas, Amicus Curiae, Brown V. Bd. Of Educ. Of Topeka Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5 (11/15/1954) TO THE HONORABLE SUPREME COURT OF THF UNITED STATES: FN1. Section 7 of Article VII of the Texas Constitution provides: Separate schools shall be provided for the white and colored... 1954 Briefs Yes  
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