Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Type | Key Terms in Title or Summary | Case Status |
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Clark V. Thompson |
206 F.Supp. 539, United States District Court S.D. Mississippi, Jackson Division, Docket Number CIV. 3235 (5/15/1962) |
Three Negroes brought a purported class action to enjoin city officials from enforcing state statutes to prevent the Negroes from using public recreational facilities on an integrated basis. The District Court, Mize, Chief Judge, held that the action was not a proper class action, and that no relief could be granted other than that to which the... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Clemmons V. Congress of Racial Equality |
201 F.Supp. 737, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division, Docket Number 624 (2/2/1962) |
Action initiated by sheriff of a parish, and a city and certain of its officials, against a corporation and others, for injunctive relief against certain allegedly unlawful activities sponsored by defendants. The District Court, West, J., held that activities which prevented and hindered state, parish and city authorities from giving and securing... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Cobb V. Montgomery Library Bd. |
207 F.Supp. 880, United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division, Docket Number CIV 1807-N (8/7/1962) |
A Negro brought an action against city officials for a declaration that any statute, ordinance, custom, or usage providing for segregation in public library system and public museum of city violated the federal Constitution. The District Court, Johnson, J., held that the action of the city officials in denying to Negroes their right to use main... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Colorado Anti-discrimination Act Held Inapplicable to Hiring of Pilot by Interstate Air-line Because of Burden to Interstate Commerce |
110 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1033 (May, 1962) |
Acting on a complaint, the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Commission found that Continental Airlines, in violation of the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act of 1957, had refused a man employment as a pilot solely because he was a Negro. The Commission ordered Continental to give the rejected applicant first opportunity to enroll in its next training... |
1962 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
Yes |
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Colorado Anti-discrimination Commission V. Case |
151 Colo. 235, Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc, Docket Number 19988 (12/17/1962) |
Petition to review proceedings before Anti-Discrimination Commission under Fair Housing Act. Interested persons were permitted to intervene, to present briefs as amici curiae, and to appear in oral argument of the issues. The District Court, El Paso County, David W. Enoch, J., held that the Fair Housing Act was unconstitutional and error was... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Colorado Anti-discrimination Commission V. Continental Air Lines, Inc. |
149 Colo. 259, Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc, Docket Number 19771 (2/13/1962) |
Proceeding on complaint before Anti-Discrimination Commission. On review of Commission's order, requiring employer to hire complainant, the District Court, City and County of Denver, William A. Black, J., entered a judgment dismissing complaint and the complaint and Commission brought error. The Supreme Court, Moore, J., held that the Colorado... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
Kenneth L. Karst , William W. Van Alstyne |
Comment: Sit-ins and State Action-mr. Justice Douglas, Concurring |
14 Stanford Law Review 762 (July, 1962) |
Last December the Supreme Court decided three sit-in cases. In Garner v. Louisiana, the Court struck down disturbing-the-peace convictions of sixteen young Negroes whose only allegedly criminal activity was to sit at white lunch counters in a department store, a drug store, and a bus terminal, all in Baton Rouge. The opinion of the Chief... |
1962 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
Yes |
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Constitutional Law - in General - Right to Practice Black Muslim Tenets in State Prisons. - Pierce V. Lavallee (2d Cir.1961); in re Ferguson (Cal. 1961) |
75 Harvard Law Review 837 (February, 1962) |
In two recent cases Negro inmates of state prisons, members of the Black Muslims, challenged the constitutionality of restraints on their practices. In the first the California Department of Correction had determined that the Muslims were not entitled to be accorded the privileges of a religious group or sect. Accordingly they were not permitted to... |
1962 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
Yes |
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Constitutional Law–interstate Commerce–state Fair Employment Practice Legislation Unconstitutionally Burdens Interstate Commerce When Applied to Interstate Airline.–colorado Anti-discrimination Comm'n V. Continental Air Lines, Inc. (Colo. 1962) |
76 Harvard Law Review 404 (December, 1962) |
In April 1957, Marlon Green, a Negro, applied for a position as a pilot with Continental Air Lines. In June 1957, he was asked to come to Denver for an interview and a series of tests. Although qualified under the airline's standards, he was not offered a place in Continental's training program. Green filed a complaint with the Colorado Anti-... |
1962 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
Yes |
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Constitutional Rights of Prisoners: the Developing Law |
110 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 985 (May, 1962) |
He [the convicted felon] has, as a consequence of his crime, not only forfeited his liberty, but all his personal rights except those which the law in its humanity accords to him. He is for the time being the slave of the State. This quotation illustrates what was once a typical judicial attitude toward the rights of prisoners. Today the analogy to... |
1962 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
Yes |
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Contee V. State |
229 Md. 486, Court of Appeals of Maryland, Docket Number 27 (10/17/1962) |
Convicted of rape, in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, Benjamin Michaelson, J., defendant appealed. The Court of Appeals, Henderson, J., held, inter alia, that court which asked prospective jurors whether they could render impartial verdict without bias or prejudice, and without regard to race, creed or nationality of accused did not... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Country Mut. Ins. Co. V. Bergman |
38 Ill.App.2d 268, Appellate Court of Illinois, Third District, Docket Number 10374 (10/22/1962) |
Declaratory judgment action by automobile liability insurer to determine whether it was required to defend an action which had been brought against its insured for wrongful death of passenger killed in insured's automobile during a race. The Circuit Court, Champaign County, Charles E. Keller, J., determined that insurer was required to defend the... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
or overruled. |
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Dillard V. School Bd. Of City of Charlottesville, Va. |
308 F.2d 920, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8638 (9/17/1962) |
School desegregation suit. The United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, at Charlottesville, John Paul, J., 203 F.Supp. 225, rendered judgment upholding city pupil assignment plan with respect to elementary schools but requiring that Negro pupils excluded from predominantly white high school be admitted to that institution,... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Dove V. Parham |
Not Reported in F.Supp, United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas (8/30/1962) |
This cause is now before the court on the motion of Sarah Etoria Howard, a 14 year old minor, for leave to intervene herein as a party plaintiff. The motion is accompanied by the proposed intervention. An examination of the proposed intervention discloses that movant is a Negro public school student who completed the 9th grade at the Townsend Park... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Emory University V. Nash |
218 Ga. 317, Supreme Court of Georgia, Docket Number 21731 (9/14/1962) |
Suit by university for declaratory judgment determining its right to tax exemption if it admits a Negro student. From an adverse judgment of the Superior Court, DeKalb County, Frank Guess, J., the university brought error. The Supreme Court, Candler, J., held that provisions of Constitution granting tax exemption to such educational institutions as... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Evans V. Buchanan |
207 F.Supp. 820, United States District Court D. Delaware, Docket Number CIV 1816-1822 (8/29/1962) |
Proceeding on petition by nine Negro children for an order allowing them to transfer from an all Negro school to an integrated school. The District Court, Wright, Chief Judge, held that evidence was insufficient to overcome presumption of unconstitutionality arising from board's assignment of petitioners to a school having an all Negro student body... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Flax V. Potts |
204 F.Supp. 458, United States District Court N.D. Texas, Fort Worth Division, Docket Number CIV. 4205 (3/1/1962) |
Action to end compulsory segregation in Fort Worth public schools. The District Court, Brewster, J., held that the dual system was unconstitutional, and that Negro children were not required first to pursue administrative remedies under Pupil Placement Law in view of fixed policy of racial segregation, prior exclusion solely on account of race or... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Fulwood V. Clemmer |
206 F.Supp. 370, United States District Court District of Columbia, Docket Number CIV. 3211-61 (7/2/1962) |
Proceeding by inmate of District of Columbia jail for writ of mandamus or an alternative writ of habeas corpus. The District Court, Matthews, J., held that allowing some religious groups to hold religious services at reformatory and jail at public expense while denying that right to another discriminated against prisoner of that faith in violation... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Gantt V. Clemson Agr. College of S. C. |
208 F.Supp. 416, United States District Court W.D. South Carolina, Anderson Division, Docket Number CA/4101 (9/6/1962) |
Negro resident's action seeking a permanent injunction enjoining defendants from denying him admission to Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina solely on account of his race. On the plaintiff's application for a preliminary injunction, the District Court, Wyche, Chief Judge, held that plaintiff was not entitled to preliminary injunctive... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Gantt V. Clemson Agr. College of S. C. |
213 F.Supp. 103, United States District Court W.D. South Carolina, Anderson Division, Docket Number CIV. 4101 (12/21/1962) |
Action by Negro resident of South Carolina seeking permanent injunction enjoining defendants from denying him admission to Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina solely on account of his race. The District Court, Wyche, J., held that Negro could not be denied admission because he was member of Negro race, but that burden was on Negro to... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
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Gordon V. State |
243 Miss. 750, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Docket Number 42297 (4/23/1962) |
Defendant was convicted in the Circuit Court, Lowndes County, John D. Green, Jr., J., of rape, and he appealed. The Supreme Court, Jones, J., held that motion to quash indictment and special panel should have been granted where defendant was a Negro, and no Negroes had ever served upon juries of the county, although there were Negro qualified... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Goss V. Board of Ed. Of City of Knoxville, Tenn. |
301 F.2d 164, United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit, Docket Number 14425 (4/3/1962) |
Class action by Negro school children and parents or guardians seeking an injunction restraining School Board and others from operating a compulsory racially segregated school system and for a judgment declaring rights of Negro children to be admitted to city public schools on racially unsegregated basis and without discrimination on account of... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
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Green V. School Bd. Of City of Roanoke, Va. |
304 F.2d 118, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8534 (5/22/1962) |
Action to require city school board to grant transfers of plaintiffs from Negro to white schools. From a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, Oren R. Lewis, J., the plaintiffs appealed. The Court of Appeals, Sobeloff, Chief Judge, held that practice of initially assigning children in city school system... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Guillory V. Administrators of Tulane University of La. |
212 F.Supp. 674, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division, Docket Number CIV. 11484B (12/5/1962) |
Action brought by Negroes, qualified in every respect for admission to Tulane University but denied admission solely because they were Negroes, for the declaration that they could not be constitutionally excluded from the university solely because of race, and for injunctive relief. The administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund averred that,... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Guillory V. Administrators of Tulane University of La. |
203 F.Supp. 855, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division, Docket Number CIV. 11484-B (3/28/1962) |
Action against the administrators of Tulane University of Louisiana and others wherein the plaintiffs filed a motion for summary judgment. The District Court, J. Skelly Wright, J., held, inter alia, that Tulane University cannot discriminate in admissions on basis of race on theory that it is a private institution and hence immune from command of... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
or overruled. |
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Hampton V. City of Jacksonville, Fla. |
304 F.2d 320, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 19298 (5/17/1962) |
Action by Negro plaintiff against city and purchasers of its golf courses to enjoin them from restricting use of golf courses to white patrons. The United States District Court for the District of Florida, Bryan Simpson, Chief Judge, rendered judgment for defendants and the plaintiff appealed. The Court of Appeals held that city, by selling golf... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
or overruled. |
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Harrison V. Murphy |
205 F.Supp. 449, United States District Court D. Delaware, Docket Number CIV. 2242 (5/18/1962) |
Action against owners of restaurant for refusing to allow plaintiff, who was a Negro, to remain seated in their diner after he had ordered food. The District Court, Layton, J., held that restaurant owners, who had no connection with state agency, were not acting under color of law in refusing service to a Negro under Delaware law, which was... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Jackson V. Pasadena City School Dist. |
26 Cal.Rptr. 661, District Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 2, California, Docket Number 26180 (12/10/1962) |
Mandate proceedings in a school racial segregation case wherein plaintiff sought to compel a school board to permit him to transfer from the Washington junior high school to the Elliott junior high school. From a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, William E. Fox, J., sustaining a demurrer without leave to amend, the plaintiff... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains and overruling risk. |
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Jackson V. School Bd. Of City of Lynchburg, Va. |
203 F.Supp. 701, United States District Court W.D. Virginia, Lynchburg Division, Docket Number CIV. 534 (4/10/1962) |
Action wherein a school board was ordered to file a plan for desegregation of public schools of a city. The District Court, Michie, J., held that plan for desegregation of public schools on basis of at least one grade a year, with right of pupil whose race is in minority in a school or a class to transfer on request, would be approved,... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
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Jackson V. School Bd. Of City of Lynchburg, Va. |
201 F.Supp. 620, United States District Court W.D. Virginia, Lynchburg Division, Docket Number CIV. 534 (1/15/1962) |
School desegregation case. The District Court, Michie, J., held that under the circumstances Negro students were discriminated against because of race in their assignment to all-colored high school, that those possessing academic qualifications would be transferred to white high school, and that an injunction should be issued against local school... |
1962 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |