AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Moore V. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. 98 F.Supp. 375, United States District Court E.D. Pennsylvania, Docket Number CIV. 9190 (6/26/1951) Action by Charles Moore against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company and Pennsylvania Railroad Company for damages allegedly sustained when plaintiff was required to move from a coach restricted to white passengers to one restricted to colored persons. Both defendants moved to dismiss the complaint. The District Court, Grim, J., held that the... 1951 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Patterson V. Balkcom 207 Ga. 511, Supreme Court of Georgia, Docket Number 17298 (1/8/1951) Habeas corpus proceeding by Oscar Patterson against R. P. Balkcom, Jr., Warden, to obtain his release on ground that at time of trial he was denied due process. The Superior Court, Tattnall County, M. Price, J., rendered judgment for defendant and plaintiff brought error. The Supreme Court, Wyatt, J., held that a complaint that colored persons were... 1951 Cases Yes  
  Peay V. Cox 190 F.2d 123, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 13494 (6/21/1951) Action by Rev. I. C. Peay, and others, against L. M. Cox, Registrar, alleging that defendant was misconstruing a state law and his powers under it and had set up a different test for colored voters to register from that applied to white voters with the effect of depriving the colored petitioners of the right to vote. The District Court for the... 1951 Cases Yes  
  Perry V. Cyphers 186 F.2d 608, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 13046 (1/23/1951) James E. Perry and James McCary brought an action against N. W. Cyphers, and others, for declaratory judgment, injunctive relief, and damages because the Citizens Party of Harrison County, Texas, by its officers and agents, had denied plaintiff the right to vote in primary election held by such party because plaintiffs were Negroes. The United... 1951 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Preston V. State 157 Tex.Crim. 228, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 25188 (5/30/1951) Major Preston was convicted in the District Court, Trinity County, Max M. Rogers, J., of rape, and he appealed. The Court of Criminal Appeals held that evidence established that grand jury which indicted defendant had been selected without racial discrimination. Judgment affirmed. 1951 Cases Yes  
  Rice V. Rinaldo 119 N.E.2d 657, Court of Appeals of Ohio, Second District, Montgomery County, Docket Number 2133 (4/18/1951) Action against dentist for alleged violation of statute proscribing racial discrimination. The Common Pleas Court, 95 N.E.2d 30, sustained defendant's demurrer and plaintiff appealed on questions of law. The Court of Appeals held that under statute proscribing racial discrimination in (1) restaurants or eating houses, (2) barber shops, (3) public... 1951 Cases Yes  
  Rolax V. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. 186 F.2d 473, United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 6167 (1/3/1951) Action under the Railway Labor Act by Willie J. Rolax and others, against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, a corporation, and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, an unincorporated labor organization, and others, to have declared void agreement between railroad and brotherhood depriving plaintiff and other Negro firemen of... 1951 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Seay V. State 212 Miss. 712, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division A, Docket Number 38219 (12/3/1951) Shelton Seay was convicted in the Circuit Court, Tishomingo County, Raymond T. Jarvis, J., of an alleged felonious assault upon the county sheriff, and the defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, McGehee, C. J., held that where the evidence disclosed that the name of no negro had been placed in the jury box out of which the grand and petit juries... 1951 Cases Yes  
  Sims V. State 156 Tex.Crim. 218, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 25250 (4/25/1951) L. C. Sims was convicted in the District Court of Collin County, W. C. Dowdy, J., of rape, and he appealed. The Court of Criminal Appeals, held that procedure of trial judge prior to indictment of defendant in which he interviewed various members of colored population to determine their qualifications for service on jury commission so that he would... 1951 Cases Yes  
  Solomon V. Pennsylvania R. Co. 96 F.Supp. 709, United States District Court S.D. New York (4/5/1951) Action by Wilhelmina Solomon against Pennsylvania Railroad Company and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company for damages sustained by negro passenger by reason of being forced during interstate journey to relinquish reserved seat in one car and accept inferior accommodations in another car. The United States District Court, McGohey, J., held that... 1951 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Speller V. Crawford 99 F.Supp. 92, United States District Court, E.D. North Carolina, Raleigh Division, Docket Number 486-B (7/13/1951) Habeas corpus proceedings by Raleigh Speller against Joseph P. Crawford, Warden, Central Prison of the State of North Carolina, in which petitioner alleged that there had been systematic and arbitrary exclusion of members of colored race from jury boxes of county from which trial jury had been selected. The District Court, Gilliam, J., held that... 1951 Cases Yes  
  State ex Rel. Treadaway V. Louisiana State Bd. Of Health 54 So.2d 343, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Parish of Orleans, Docket Number 19723 (10/15/1951) Mandamus proceeding by the State, on the relation of Grant T. Treadaway, against the Louisiana State Board of Health to compel correction of death record to show that relator's mother was a member of the Caucasian race. The Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Division A, No. 267139, Paul E. Chasez, J., entered... 1951 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Sweeney V. City of Louisville 102 F.Supp. 525, United States District Court W.D. Kentucky, at Louisville, Docket Number CIV. 1723 (9/14/1951) Action by P. O. Sweeney, and others, against City of Louisville, and others, for declaratory judgment as to rights of plaintiffs, as members of Negro race, to use recreational and entertainment facilities located within public parks owned and maintained by city. The District Court, Shelbourne, J., held that where Negroes and whites were segregated... 1951 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  The Supreme Court, Term 1950 65 Harvard Law Review 114 (November, 1951) The place of price in competition furnished the primary antitrust concern of the 1950 Court. Two depression-born statutes, passed in an era when lower prices threatened economic ruin, came before the Court for interpretation, and in each case the decision was for less fettered competition. Price Discrimination. The first of these, Standard Oil... 1951 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  White V. Holderby 192 F.2d 722, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 13399 (11/16/1951) George White and others brought action against Murrel Holderby and others to recover damages for alleged libel and for alleged malicious prosectuion, on ground that defendants presented written complaint to Board of Education charging that certain of the plainttfs were Negroes and requesting that certain of the plaintiffs be barred from white... 1951 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Wilson V. Beebe 99 F.Supp. 418, United States District Court, D. Delaware, Docket Number CIV. 1376, CIV. 1377 (7/26/1951) Separate suits, by Richard Wilson and others and by James Johnson and others, against James Beebe and others for judgments declaring unconstitutional and void a statute and a state constitution section requiring the maintenance of separate schools for white and colored children. The defendants moved the court to dismiss the complaints on the ground... 1951 Cases Yes  
  Wilson V. City of Paducah 100 F.Supp. 116, United States District Court W.D. Kentucky, Paducah Division, Docket Number CIV. 516 (9/10/1951) Action by Fred A. Wilson, Jr., and another, suing for themselves and all others persons similarly situated, against the City of Paducah and others, wherein judgment was entered holding the action to be a class action and that plaintiffs and other Negro citizens of Paducah possessing required qualifications were entitled to admission to Paducah... 1951 Cases Yes  
  Bailey V. Commonwealth 191 Va. 510, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (11/27/1950) Jodie Bailey was convicted of first degree murder in the Circuit Court of Greensville County, J. J. Temple, J., and he brings error. The Supreme Court of Appeals, Buchanan, J., held that the question of the guilt of the defendant was for the jury but that defendant offered sufficient relevant evidence to show discrimination in the selection of the... 1950 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Beal V. Holcombe 103 F.Supp. 218, United States District Court S.D. Texas, Houston Division, Docket Number CIV. 5407 (12/4/1950) A. W. Beal and others brought suit against Oscar Holcombe, mayor, and others, to require the admission of Negroes to play golf at golf courses in city parks used exclusively by white people. The district court, Kenner, J., held that failure of city to provide any golf courses in parks used by Negroes, though three of the parks used exclusively by... 1950 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Brief for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as Amicus Curiae., Collins V. Hardyman Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 217 (12/28/1950) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People submits this brief as amicus curiae. The written consent of all parties to the case to the filing of this brief has been filed... 1950 Briefs Yes  
  Brown V. Ramsey 185 F.2d 225, United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, Docket Number 14130 (11/17/1950) Charles L. Brown, infant, age 12 years, by his stepfather and next friend, Arthur Bouser, and others brought action against J. W. Ramsey, Superintendent of Schools, and others, for a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief charging defendants with the practice and custom of denying Negro children educational opportunities and advantages... 1950 Cases Yes  
  Carter V. School Bd. Of Arlington County, Va. 182 F.2d 531, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 6064 (5/31/1950) Constance Carter, an infant, by Eleanor Taylor, her parent and next friend, brought action against the School Board of Arlington County, Virginia and others, to enjoin defendants from alleged discrimination against Negro students by failing to provide them solely on account of their race or color with facilities and opportunities for high school... 1950 Cases Yes  
  Cassell V. State of Tex. 339 U.S. 282, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 46 (4/24/1950) Lee Cassell was convicted in the Criminal District Court No. 2, Dallas County, Henry King, J., of murder. The judgment of conviction was affirmed by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Charles G. Krueger, J., 216 S.W.2d 813, and the defendant brought certiorari. The Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Reed, held that there had been discrimination in... 1950 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  City of Birmingham V. Monk 185 F.2d 859, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 13158 (12/19/1950) Action by Mary Means Monk, and others, in their own behalf and in behalf of other Negroes similarly situated, against the City of Birmingham, and others, for a declaratory judgment that certain zoning laws of the city were unconstitutional and void, and for an injunction against enforcement. The United States District Court for the Northern... 1950 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Com. V. Figari 166 Pa.Super. 169, Superior Court of Pennsylvania (1/12/1950) Joseph Figari and James Figari were convicted in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lancaster County at September Sessions, 1948, Joseph B. Wissier, J., of violating statute making it a misdemeanor to discriminate against persons because of race or color, and they appealed. The Superior Court, Dithrich, J., affirmed the judgments and held that Court... 1950 Cases Yes  
Stayton M. Bonner Constitutional Law-refusal to Rent to Negro by Private Redevelopment Company Not State Action.-dorsey V. Stuyvesant Town Corp., 299 N.y. 512, 87 N.e. 541 (1949), Cert. Denied, 18 U.s.l. Week. 3338 (U.s. June 6, 1950) 28 Texas Law Review 976 (October, 1950) A private corporation constructed housing units under an agreement with the city, made pursuant to the New York Redevelopment Companies Law. The contract was silent on the subject of racial discrimination. The city condemned the land, bought it under one title, and granted a twenty year tax exemption for the enhancement of the property. The company... 1950 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Dean V. Thomas 93 F.Supp. 129, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana. New Orleans Division, Docket Number CIV. 2790 (7/25/1950) Joe Dean and others brought an action against Curtis M. Thomas, Registrar of Voters for Washington Parish, Louisiana. On plaintiffs' motion for a declaratory judgment as to their right to register and qualify as electors in such parish without restrictions because of their race and color and a permanent injunction restraining defendant from... 1950 Cases Yes  
  Discriminatory Law Enforcement and Equal Protection from the Law 59 Yale Law Journal 354 (January, 1950) State discrimination against individuals or groups is prohibited by the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. While courts have readily used this clause to strike down discriminatory laws, they have never been fully converted to the proposition that discriminatory enforcement of a nondiscriminatory law is also within the... 1950 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Draper V. City of St. Louis 92 F.Supp. 546, United States District Court E.D. Missouri, Eastern Division, Docket Number 7264(2) (7/17/1950) Action by George W. Draper and Rose E. Taylor against the City of St. Louis, a municipal corporation, and others, for a declaratory judgment and for injunctive relief against the City's refusal to permit Negroes to use open air swimming pools built, maintained and operated by public funds solely because of their color or race. The District Court,... 1950 Cases Yes  
  Draper V. Clark Dairy Not Reported in A.2d, Superior Court of Connecticut, Docket Number 73800 (10/10/1950) A hearing tribunal of the inter-racial commission under the Fair Employment Practices Act concluded that the defendant employer refused employment to the applicant, a Negro, because of his race and issued an order to the defendant to cease and desist from refusing to employ him. On appeal by the defendant, held that the applicant, while his... 1950 Cases Yes  
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