Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Type | Key Terms in Title or Summary | Case Status |
Jefferson B. Fordham |
The People and the Court. By Charles L. Black, Jr. the Macmillan Company, 1960. Pp. Vii, 238. $5.00 |
70 Yale Law Journal 481 (January, 1961) |
This book is both a timely and conspicuously able defense of judicial review as exercised by the Supreme Court of the United States. It is in refreshing contrast with the intemperate attacks, of recent memory, which have been made upon the Court and its performance of the function of judicial review. Public understanding of the Court's crucial role... |
1961 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
Yes |
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The Right to Equal Treatment: Administrative Enforcement of Antidiscrimination Legislation |
74 Harvard Law Review 526 (January, 1961) |
Discrimination by private persons on the basis of race, color, or religion has been contrary to the public policy of some states for many years. The first statutes implementing this policy were in the area of public accommodations and established either criminal penalties against persons discriminating or a right to damages in persons discriminated... |
1961 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
Yes |
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The Right to Nondiscriminatory Enforcement of State Penal Laws |
61 Columbia Law Review 1103 (June, 1961) |
The equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment proscribes state legislation that unreasonably discriminates against any person or class of persons by imposing criminal penalties for conduct that would go unpunished if done by others. Clearly, the condemned result, unequal regulation of private conduct by state criminal laws, may be... |
1961 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
Yes |
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Turner V. City of Memphis |
199 F.Supp. 585, United States District Court, W.D. Tennessee, Western Division, Docket Number CIV. 3934 (1/23/1961) |
Action by Negro to permanently enjoin defendants from operating eating and rest room facilities at municipal airport on a racially segregated basis. The three-judge District Court, Per Curiam, held that where state statutes and regulations and city ordinances required that separate facilities for Negro and White races be maintained, the action... |
1961 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
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Turner V. Randolph |
195 F.Supp. 677, United States District Court, W.D. Tennessee, Western Division, Docket Number CIV.3525 (7/22/1961) |
Action to desegregate public libraries. The District Court, William E. Miller, Chief Judge, held that city building code ordinance provision requiring segregated washrooms was unconstitutional as applied to public libraries. Order accordingly. |
1961 |
Cases |
Yes |
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U.s. V. Association of Citizens Councils of La., Inc. |
196 F.Supp. 908, United States District Court W.D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division, Docket Number CIV. 7881 (8/21/1961) |
Action brought by the Attorney General in the name of United States against a registrar of voters and others who allegedly had deprived Negro citizens of their right to register and vote. The District Court, Ben C. Dawkins, Jr., Chief Judge, held, in part, that the registrar, who arbitrarily discriminated against Negroes in identification... |
1961 |
Cases |
Yes |
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U.s. V. Raines |
203 F.Supp. 147, United States District Court M.D. Georgia, Americus Division, Docket Number CIV. 442 (1/24/1961) |
Voting rights case. After a lengthy trial, discrimination was found and an appropriate injunction was issued. The plaintiff filed a motion for a finding as to a pattern or practice to deprive Negro citizens of their voting rights. The District Court, Bootle, J., held that discretion would be exercised to refuse to make such finding, where the... |
1961 |
Cases |
Yes |
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U.s. V. Romano |
191 F.Supp. 772, United States District Court D. Connecticut, Docket Number CRIM. 10284 (3/10/1961) |
Proceedings on defendants' motion for dismissal of indictment because grand jury which returned it was allegedly drawn from group of veniremen which was allegedly drawn from jury list selected in manner contrary to law. The District Court, Anderson, Chief Judge, held that defendants, complaining that jury list was not geographically or racially... |
1961 |
Cases |
Yes |
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U.s. V. State of Ala. |
192 F.Supp. 677, United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Eastern Division, Docket Number CIV. 479-E (3/17/1961) |
Action by United States for injunctive relief against acts and practices of state and county registrars depriving citizens of right to register to vote without discrimination because of race or color. The District Court, Johnson, J., held that evidence established that state and county registrars, in violation of federal Constitution and federal... |
1961 |
Cases |
Yes |
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U.s. V. Wood |
295 F.2d 772, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 19237 (10/27/1961) |
Government's action for injunctive relief against prosecution of a Negro before a Mississippi justice of the peace, on a breach of peace count, maintained on theory that continued prosecution was designed to, and would, intimidate qualified Negroes in county from attempting to register to vote, though the Negro in question, who was aiding them in... |
1961 |
Cases |
Yes |
This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
or overruled. |
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Vickers V. Chapel Hill City Bd. Of Ed. |
196 F.Supp. 97, United States District Court M.D. North Carolina, Durham Division, Docket Number C-11-D-60 (8/4/1961) |
Action by minor student and his parents against a city board of education, for a declaration that it was the right of the minor and the class he represented to attend a specified public school without discrimination on account of race or color. The District Court, Edwin M. Stanley, Chief Judge, held that the minor was entitled to be admitted to the... |
1961 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Wells V. Gilliam |
196 F.Supp. 792, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Richmond Division, Docket Number CIV. 3179 (6/1/1961) |
Action by plaintiffs for themselves and all other members of Negro race for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief to restrain the judge of a municipal court from continuing racial segregation in the spectator portion of the court. The District Court, Lewis, J., held that the practice of racial segregation in spectator portion of courtroom... |
1961 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Wheeler V. Durham City Bd. Of Ed. |
196 F.Supp. 71, United States District Court M.D. North Carolina, Durham Division, Docket Number C-116-D-60, C-54-D-60 (7/20/1961) |
Class actions commenced by members of the Negro race against city board of education to have declared the rights of minor plaintiffs and the class of persons they represented to attend public schools without discrimination on account of race or color and for injunctive relief. The District Court, Edwin M. Stanley, Chief Judge, held that the school... |
1961 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
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Williams V. Hot Shoppes, Inc. |
293 F.2d 835, United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, Docket Number 15610 (4/20/1961) |
Action by colored plaintiff for alleged deprivation of civil rights by act of a restaurant manager in allegedly discriminating against plaintiff because the manager believed he was compelled to do so by a Virginia statute. From a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, dismissing the complaint, the plaintiff... |
1961 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Williams V. Hot Shoppes, Inc. |
293 F.2d 835, United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, Docket Number 15610 (4/20/1961) |
Action by colored plaintiff for alleged deprivation of civil rights by act of a restaurant manager in allegedly discriminating against plaintiff because the manager believed he was... |
1961 |
Trial Court Orders |
Yes |
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Wills V. Trans World Airlines, Inc. |
200 F.Supp. 360, United States District Court S.D. California, Central Division, Docket Number CIV. 1200-59 (12/29/1961) |
Action by airline passenger against airline company on charge of unjust discrimination visited upon him as a prospective passenger aboard one of defendant's aircraft. The District Court, Mathes, J., held that deprivation of contractual rights of passenger by unreasonable and unjust discrimination in removing him from flight on which on which he had... |
1961 |
Cases |
Yes |
This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
or overruled. |
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Aaron V. Tucker |
186 F.Supp. 913, United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Western Division, Docket Number CIV. 3113 (9/2/1960) |
Plaintiffs, for themselves and all other members of class whom they claimed to represent, filed motion for further relief in which it was alleged that two Negro students had been wrongfully denied reassignment to certain high schools attended by white students. Thereafter 14 Negro students filed a motion to be allowed to intervene, and the motion... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
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Augustus V. Board of Public Instruction of Escambia County, Fla. |
185 F.Supp. 450, United States District Court N.D. Florida, Pensacola Division, Docket Number CIV 1064 (6/24/1960) |
Class action by students to enjoin school authorities from assigning students, teachers, principals and other school personnel on the basis of race and color. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Carswell, Chief Judge, held that the portion of complaint dealing with action of students on behalf of teachers,... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
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Bailey V. Henslee |
184 F.Supp. 298, United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Western Division, Docket Number LR 60 C 25 (5/26/1960) |
Habeas corpus proceeding brought by a Negro prisoner who was under sentence of death. The District Court, Young, J., held that evidence was insufficient to establish that there was racial discrimination in selection of jury panel which tried and convicted him. Petition for writ of habeas corpus denied. |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
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Benign Quotas: a Plan for Integrated Private Housing |
70 Yale Law Journal 126 (November, 1960) |
Progress Development Corporation was organized to construct and sell racially integrated single occupancy housing in Deerfield, Illinois, an all white upper middleclass suburb of Chicago. In April, 1959, and at subsequent dates, Progress acquired twenty-two acres of land on which it intended to erect fifty-one homes. Because Negroes comprised... |
1960 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
Yes |
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Boman V. Birmingham Transit Co. |
280 F.2d 531, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 18187 (7/12/1960) |
Class action, on behalf of Negro patrons of bus company, to enjoin company from enforcing its published rule of seating bus passengers according to race. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, H. h. Grooms, J., entered a judgment dismissing action, and plaintiffs appealed. The Court of Appeals, Tuttle, Circuit Judge,... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Boson V. Rippy |
285 F.2d 43, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 18467 (11/30/1960) |
Action to end enforced racial segregation in public schools. From order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, T. Whitfield Davidson, J., entered order rejecting plan one and approving plan two and parties appealed. The Court of Appeals, Rives, Chief Judge, held that plan which would require operation of mixed... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
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Boson V. Rippy |
275 F.2d 850, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 18046 (3/11/1960) |
Class action for admission of Negro children to certain municipal public schools on a nonracial basis. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, T. Whitfield Davidson, J., entered an order denying a motion for an order directing and requiring defendants to immediately desegregate in compliance with a judgment and orders... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Boynton V. Com. Of Va. |
364 U.S. 454, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 158680, 7 (12/5/1960) |
Action presenting question whether interstate bus passenger was denied a federal statutory or constitutional right when restaurant, in bus terminal used by carrier along its route, discriminated in serving food to passenger solely because of his color. To review a judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia affirming conviction of... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
or overruled. |
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Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae, Boynton V. Com. Of Virginia |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 7 (9/1/1960) |
At 8:00 p.m. on December 20, 1958, petitioner, a Negro student in his third year at the Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C., boarded a Trailways bus in Washington to travel... |
1960 |
Briefs |
Yes |
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Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae, Gomillion V. Lightfoot |
Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number No. 32 (8/31/1960) |
Petitioners, Negro citizens, filed a complaint (R. 2-9) in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama alleging that a 1957 Act of the State of Alabama (Act 140)... |
1960 |
Briefs |
Yes |
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Brooks V. State |
170 Tex.Crim. 555, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 32494 (11/30/1960) |
Defendant was convicted of rape. The 86th Judicial District Court, Van Zandt County, A. A. Dawson, J., rendered judgment, and the defendant appealed. The Court of Criminal Appeals held the contention of defendant on appeal that District Court erred in overruling his motion to quash indictment, on ground of racial discrimination, was not properly... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Bush V. Orleans Parish School Bd. |
188 F.Supp. 916, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division, Docket Number CIV. 10566, CIV. 10329, CIV. 3630 (11/30/1960) |
Consolidated actions in which injunctive relief was sought against enforcement of measures enacted by Louisiana Legislature to halt, or at least forestall, implementation of school board's announced proposal to admit Negro children to formerly all-white schools. The District Court, Rives, Circuit Judge, and Christenberry and Wright, District... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Bush V. Orleans Parish School Bd. |
190 F.Supp. 861, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division, Docket Number CIV. 3630 (12/21/1960) |
School desegregation case. The District Court held, inter alia, that however local in character an Act, purporting to vest primary control of city schools in legislature itself, and concurrent resolutions, attempting to deny school board control of its own funds deposited in local banks and warning bank against honoring board's checks, might... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Calhoun V. Latimer |
188 F.Supp. 412, United States District Court N.D. Georgia, Atlanta Division, Docket Number CIV. 6298 (9/8/1960) |
Action to compel operation of public schools without racial discrimination. Plaintiffs moved to require defendants to put an approved plan for elimination of such discrimination into operation in fall of 1960. The District Court, Hooper, Chief Judge, held that under circumstances where granting of such motion would only result in closing of the... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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