Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Type | Key Terms in Title or Summary | Case Status |
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National Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People V. Harrison |
202 Va. 142, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (9/2/1960) |
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., brought separate suits against the Attorney General of Virginia and others for declaratory judgment. The Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, Edmund W. Hening, Jr., J., rendered a decree adverse to the National Association for the... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
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National Power to Control State Discrimination Against Foreign Goods and Persons: a Study in Federalism |
12 Stanford Law Review 355 (March, 1960) |
Writing in 1939, Harold Laski expressed the view that American federalism had become obsolete and that only a unitary system could meet the nation's difficult economic and social problems. [T]he unity which giant capitalism postulates in the economic sphere postulates a corresponding unity in the conference of political powers upon the federal... |
1960 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
Yes |
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Pettit V. Board of Ed. Of Harford County |
184 F.Supp. 452, United States District Court D. Maryland, Docket Number CIV. 11955 (5/25/1960) |
School segregation case. The District Court, Thomsen, C.J., held that student who should have been admitted to eighth grade of high school and whose I.Q. was adequate for academic curriculum at that school was entitled to chance to make good in tenth grade at that school. Decree accordingly. |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Poland V. State |
232 Ark. 669, Supreme Court of Arkansas, Docket Number 4982 (10/31/1960) |
Defendants were charged with crimes of concubinage. The Circuit Court, St. Francis County, Elmo Taylor, J., rendered judgment and defendants appealed. The Supreme Court, Robinson, J., held that under statutes making concubinage a felony and providing that the living together or cohabitation of persons of Caucasian and Negro races... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Price V. Evergreen Cemetery Co. Of Seattle |
57 Wash.2d 352, Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc, Docket Number 34854 (12/8/1960) |
Action for damages against cemetery company for violation of statute to effect that it shall be unlawful for any cemetery to refuse burial to any person because such person may not be of Caucasian race. The Superior Court, King County, William J. Wilkins, J., entered judgment for cemetery company and plaintiffs appealed. The Supreme Court, Ott, J.,... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
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Progress Development Corp. V. Mitchell |
182 F.Supp. 681, United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division, Docket Number 59 C 2050 (3/4/1960) |
Action by subdivision developer and its parent corporation against park district, village, and officials thereof, brought on allegations that because of divulgence of plaintiffs' plans to sell homes to Negroes and whites, defendants conspired together to violate plaintiffs' civil rights, causing harassment of plaintiffs because of asserted, but... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
Gerald L. Rosen |
Race Relations and American Law. By Jack Greenberg, New York: Columbia University Press. 1959. Viii + 481 Pages. $10.00 |
13 Stanford Law Review 218 (December, 1960) |
Mr. Greenberg, assistant counsel to the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, has produced a book on race relations law which will be valuable both to lawyers and to social scientists. Each may observe the discipline of the other, for Mr. Greenberg presents the legal discussion in its social context. Happily, both the legal problems and the social... |
1960 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
Yes |
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Reid V. City of Norfolk, Va. |
179 F.Supp. 768, United States District Court E.D. Virginia, Norfolk Division, Docket Number CIV. 2958 (1/12/1960) |
Action before three-judge district court, brought by three Negroes and one white person, against city officials, for declaration of their rights under, and for injunctive relief against enforcement of, Virginia statutes requiring segregated seating at places of public assemblage and imposing criminal penalties. On motion to dismiss, the District... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Robert B. McKay, Professor of Law, New York University |
Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights |
60 Columbia Law Review 755 (May, 1960) |
The Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights provides encouraging support for the proposition that the United States has at last reached the point of no return on matters of racial discrimination. The question is no longer whether state-sanctioned segregation will be allowed to continue; a readily assumed negative answer to that... |
1960 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
Yes |
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Seniors V. Arnold |
284 F.2d 106, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 18458 (11/22/1960) |
Class action by person of Negro race for declaratory judgment and injunction prohibiting racially segregated seating in municipal court. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, William Boyd Sloan, J., sustained defendants' motion to dismiss, and dismissed complaint, and plaintiff appealed. The Court of Appeals, Rives,... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Slack V. Atlantic White Tower System, Inc. |
181 F.Supp. 124, United States District Court D. Maryland, Docket Number CRIM. 11073 (2/16/1960) |
Negro brought suit against proprietor of restaurant, on her own behalf and in behalf of all others similarly situated, for a declaratory judgment that denial of service to her in restaurant in Baltimore violated her rights secured by the Constitution and Laws of the United States, and for an injunction restraining such discrimination at any eating... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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State ex Rel. Dupas V. City of New Orleans |
240 La. 820, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 44118 (12/12/1960) |
Mandamus to compel the issuance of a delayed certificate of birth showing relator to be a member of the white race. The Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Renea Viosca, J., granted relief and the Court of Appeal McBridge, J., reversed in part and in part amended and affirmed 102 So.2d 77 and the relator applies the certiorari or writ... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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State of La. Ex Rel. Gremillion V. National Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People |
181 F.Supp. 37, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division, Docket Number 1678, 8554 (2/5/1960) |
Action for determination of constitutionality of two state statutes in their application to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A three-judge United States District Court held, inter alia, that statute requiring principal officer in the state of each fraternal, patriotic, charitable, benevolent, literary, scientific,... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
or overruled. |
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State V. Orleans Parish School Bd. |
118 So.2d 471, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Parish of Orleans, Docket Number 21563 (3/14/1960) |
Suit by the Attorney General on behalf of the state for a judicial interpretation of a sentence of an act dealing with classification of public schools by the state legislature as white or Negro. The Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, No. 364138, Division F, Alexander E. Rainold, J., entered a judgment... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Stoker V. State |
169 Tex.Crim. 59, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 31127 (1/6/1960) |
Defendant was convicted in the 71st Judicial District Court, Harrison County, Sam B. Hall, J., of rape, and he appealed. The Court of Criminal Appeals, Dice, C., held that long and continued exclusion of Negroes from grand jury in county constituted racial discrimination, within meaning of Fourteenth Amendment to Federal Constitution, and required... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Tennessee Negro Funeral Directors Ass'n V. Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers of Tenn. |
10 McCanless 141, Supreme Court of Tennessee (2/5/1960) |
Suit under declaratory judgment statute seeking a decree adjudging unconstitutional certain provision of a statute. From a decree of the Chancery Court, Davidson County, Alfred T. Adams, Chancellor, the plaintiff appealed. The Supreme Court, Tomlinson, J., held that where 1951 Act which provided that governor should fill vacancies on Board of... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Charles L. Black, Jr. |
The Lawfulness of the Segregation Decisions |
69 Yale Law Journal 421 (January, 1960) |
If the cases outlawing segregation were wrongly decided, then they ought to be overruled. One can go further: if dominant professional opinion ever forms and settles on the belief that they were wrongly decided, then they will be overruled, slowly or all at once, openly or silently. The insignificant error, however palpable, can stand, because the... |
1960 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
Yes |
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The Void-for-vagueness Doctrine in the Supreme Court |
109 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 67 (November, 1960) |
There are places in the law through which a pair of mutually oblivious doctrines run in infinitely parallel contrariety, like a pair of poolhall scoring racks on one or the other of which, seemingly at random, cases get hung up. Such is the area of those Supreme Court decisions which purport to turn on the issue of unconstitutional uncertainty ... |
1960 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
Yes |
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Tonkins V. City of Greensboro, N. C. |
276 F.2d 890, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8025 (3/14/1960) |
Action by Negro citizens for a declaratory judgment and to enjoin city and its officials from selling municipally owned swimming pool to private corporation. The United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, Edwin M. Stanley, 162 F.Supp. 549, as supplemented by175 F.Supp. 476, dismissed omplaint and plaintiffs appealed.... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
or overruled. |
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U.s. V. Mcelveen |
180 F.Supp. 10, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division, Docket Number CIV. 9146 (1/11/1960) |
Action by United States to enjoin persons engaged in or about to engage in depriving Negroes of right to vote. The District Court, J. Skelly Wright, J., held that individual defendants in challenging registration status of voters were acting under laws of Louisiana and that challenges by individual defendants while not patently discriminatory on... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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U.s. V. Raines |
189 F.Supp. 121, United States District Court M.D. Georgia, Americus Division, Docket Number CIV 442 (9/13/1960) |
Action by the Attorney General under the Civil Rights Act to obtain preventive relief against alleged acts and practices of the defendants allegedly depriving colored person of their rights and privileges to vote at elections without distinction of race or color. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, Bootle, J., held... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
or overruled. |
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U.s. V. Raines |
362 U.S. 17, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 64 (2/29/1960) |
The United States brought action under the Civil Rights Act against members of Board of Registrars and certain Deputy Registrars of Terrell County, Georgia, who had allegedly through various devices, in administration of their offices, discriminated on racial grounds against Negroes who desired to register to vote in elections conducted in Georgia,... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
or overruled. |
Brainerd Currie , Herma Hill Schreter |
Unconstitutional Discrimination in the Conflict of Laws: Privileges and Immunities |
69 Yale Law Journal 1323 (July, 1960) |
Paradoxically, a significant virtueor apparent virtueof the law of conflict of laws is a by-product of the worst features of the system. When universal choice-of-law rules are employed to determine what law governs, problems are created that did not exist before, and the real problems are resolved without regard to the purposes (or even the... |
1960 |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
Yes |
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Willie V. Harris County, Tex. |
180 F.Supp. 560, United States District Court S.D. Texas, Houston Division, Docket Number CIV. 11926 (2/9/1960) |
Action for declaratory judgment and permanent injunction to restrain county authorities from continuing an alleged policy of racial segregation and discrimination against the Negro race respecting public use of county beach park. The District Court, Joe M. Ingraham, J., held that under the circumstances the action would not be dismissed but would... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Wilmington Parking Authority V. Burton |
39 Del.Ch. 10, Supreme Court of Delaware (1/11/1960) |
Action for declaratory judgment in the form of injunctive relief against operator of a restaurant in a public building to require the operator to refrain from refusing to serve plaintiff solely because he was a Negro. Judgment for the plaintiff in the Chancery Court, 150 A.2d 197, and the defendants appealed. The Supreme Court, Wolcott, J., held... |
1960 |
Cases |
Yes |
This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
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Aaron V. Mckinley |
173 F.Supp. 944, United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Western Division, Docket Number CIV. 3113 (6/18/1959) |
Class action brought by school children of Negro race and their parents for declaratory and injunctive relief against state officers. The three-judge District Court held that statute giving Governor authority to close public schools and to hold an election as to whether or not schools were to be integrated, and statute authorizing Governor to... |
1959 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Aaron V. Mckinley |
173 F.Supp. 944, United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Western Division, Docket Number CIV. 3113 (6/18/1959) |
Class action brought by school children of Negro race and their parents for declaratory and injunctive relief against state officers. The three-judge District Court held that statute giving Governor authority to close public schools and to hold an election as to whether or not schools were to be integrated, and statute authorizing Governor to... |
1959 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Allen V. County School Bd. Of Prince Edward County, Va. |
266 F.2d 507, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 7829 (5/5/1959) |
Proceeding to require county school board to proceed with desegregation of public schools in county. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond, Sterling Hutcheson, District Judge, entered decree allowing school authorities seven additional years to put desegregation plan into operation and plaintiffs... |
1959 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Allen V. County School Bd. Of Prince Edward County, Va. |
266 F.2d 507, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 7829 (5/5/1959) |
Proceeding to require county school board to proceed with desegregation of public schools in county. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Richmond, Sterling Hutcheson, District Judge, entered decree allowing school authorities seven additional years to put desegregation plan into operation and plaintiffs... |
1959 |
Cases |
Yes |
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Barnes V. City of Gadsden, Ala. |
268 F.2d 593, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 17534 (6/30/1959) |
Action for a declaratory judgment and injunctions against execution and putting into effect the urban redevelopment plans attacked upon the grounds that they fostered enforced racial segregation. From a judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Harlan Hobart Grooms, J., 174 F.Supp. 64, the plaintiffs... |
1959 |
Cases |
Yes |
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