AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Honeywood V. Rockefeller 214 F.Supp. 897, United States District Court E.D. New York, Docket Number 62-C-423 (1/18/1963) Class suit by Negroes against governor and others to have act establishing new congressional districts following reduction of allotment of congressional seats declared unconstitutional and to obtain appropriate injunctive relief. The District Court, Moore, Circuit Judge, held that plaintiffs, who claimed exclusion of large parts of Negro population... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  In re Newton 224 F.Supp. 330, United States District Court W.D. Louisiana, Alexandria Division, Docket Number CIV. 8575 (12/6/1963) Habeas corpus proceeding. The District Court, Hunter, J., held that where record disclosed that there had been systematic exclusion of Negroes from grand juries in parish because of race and color, inclusive of grand jury which returned indictment against petitioner who was convicted of rape and sentenced to death, and such question was not even... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Jackson V. Pasadena City School District 59 Cal.2d 876, Supreme Court of California, In Bank, Docket Number L.A. 26705 (6/27/1963) Mandamus proceeding by 13 year old Negro boy to compel school district to permit him to transfer to another junior high school. The Superior Court, Los Angeles County, William E. Fox, J., sustained defendants' demurrer without leave to amend and the plaintiff appealed. The Supreme Court, Gibson, C. J., held that allegations in the complaint that... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Jordan V. Hutcheson 323 F.2d 597, United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit, Docket Number 8834 (9/17/1963) Class action by Negro attorneys against state legislative committee and others to enjoin defendants from taking further unlawful action to harass and intimidate attorneys and their clients and for other relief. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk, Walter E. Hoffman, Chief Judge, D.C., 208 F.Supp. 131,... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Judicial Performance in the Fifth Circuit 73 Yale Law Journal 90 (November, 1963) James Meredith's odyssey in the federal courts began in late May, 1961, soon after the University of Mississippi rejected his application for admission. On May 31, 1961, claiming that the University blocked his admission and admission of others in his class solely because of race, Meredith filed a complaint against University officials in the... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Lee V. Macon County Bd. Of Ed. 221 F.Supp. 297, United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Eastern Division, Docket Number CIV. 604-E (8/22/1963) Action to enjoin operation of allegedly compulsory biracial school system in county. The District Court, Johnson, J., held that designation of certain schools in county to be used solely by Negro students with others to be used solely by white students, assignment of Negro teachers to schools with Negro students and white teachers to schools with... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Lombard V. State of La. 373 U.S. 267, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 58 (5/20/1963) Defendants, Negro and white college students, were convicted of violating a Louisiana criminal mischief statute following an attempt by Negroes to be served in privately owned restaurant customarily patronized only by whites. The Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, rendered judgment, and defendants appealed. The Supreme... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Louisiana Designates Race on the Ballot 15 Stanford Law Review 339 (March, 1963) Constitutional LawElectionsCivil Rights.A 1960 Louisiana statute requires that every candidate place his name and racial designation on his declaration of candidacy and that the Secretary of State place this designation after each candidate's name on the ballot. Plaintiffs, two Negro candidates for the school board in the East Baton Rouge... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Mapp V. Board of Ed. Of City of Chattanooga, Tenn. 319 F.2d 571, United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit, 15039, Docket Number 15038 (7/8/1963) Public school desegregation action. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Southern Division, Frank W. Wilson, J., 203 F.Supp. 843, entered judgments, and all parties appealed. The Court of Appeals, O'Sullivan, Circuit Judge, held that requirement of notice of intent by student or his parent as an implementation... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Mccain V. Davis 217 F.Supp. 661, United States District Court E.D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division, Docket Number CIV. 12937, CIV. 12940 (5/15/1963) Actions against hotel owner and state governor presenting question of validity of Louisiana statute forbidding white hotels from providing accommodations for Negroes. A three-judge District Court, Wisdom, Circuit Judge, held that the statute violates the equal protection clause in that it discriminates against Negroes and violates the due process... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Mckibbin V. Michigan Corp. And Securities Commission 369 Mich. 69, Supreme Court of Michigan, Docket Number 66 (2/6/1963) Action to enjoin enforcement of rule promulgated by state corporation and securities commission against discrimination by broker, in any real estate or business opportunity transaction, toward any person because of race, color, religion or national origin or ancestry under commission's legislative mandate authorizing commission to revoke a real... 1963 Cases Yes  
  Mcneese V. Board of Ed. For Community Unit School Dist. 187, Cahokia, Ill. 373 U.S. 668, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 480 (6/3/1963) Suit by Negro public school pupils under Civil Rights Act for equitable relief from school segregation. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois, 199 F.Supp. 403, dismissed the complaint. The Court of Appeals, 305 F.2d 783, affirmed and certiorari was granted. The Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Douglas, held that it was... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Mitchell V. Delaware Alcoholic Beverage Control Com'n 6 Storey 260, Superior Court of Delaware, New Castle County (5/31/1963) Applications for licenses for sale of alcoholic liquors for consumption on and off the applicant's premises were refused by the alcoholic beverage control commission and the applicant appealed. The Superior Court, New Castle County, Stewart Lynch, J., held that the alcoholic beverage control commission in considering the applications by a Negro... 1963 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Monroe V. Board of Com'rs of City of Jackson, Tenn. 221 F.Supp. 968, United States District Court, W.D. Tennessee, Eastern Division, Docket Number CIV. 1327 (8/12/1963) Action for desegregation of certain public schools. The District Court, Bailey Brown, J., held that under the circumstances, desegregation would be required on basis of first through third grades in the school year 1963-1964, fourth through sixth grades in the school year 1964-1965, seventh and eighth grades in 1965-1966, ninth and tenth grades in... 1963 Cases Yes  
Charles A. Reich Mr. Justice Black and the Living Constitution 76 Harvard Law Review 673 (February, 1963) To Mr. Justice Black, who has completed a quarter century of distinguished service on the Court and who this month celebrates his seventy-seventh birthday, the editors respectfully dedicate this issue. HUGO L. Black has been a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States for twenty-five years. He was the first Roosevelt appointee; his service... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  N. L. R. B. V. Baker Hotel of Dallas, Inc. 311 F.2d 528, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 19456 (1/3/1963) Proceeding on a petition for enforcement of an order of the National Labor Relations Board. The Court of Appeals, Tuttle, Chief Judge, held that Board finding that discharge of hotel waitress who advocated union membership, during union's organizational drive, was discriminatory was supported by substantial evidence on record as whole. Order... 1963 Cases Yes  
  N. L. R. B. V. Miranda Fuel Co. 326 F.2d 172, United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit, Docket Number 73, 26232 (12/11/1963) Petition by the National Labor Relations Board for enforcement of orders against employer and the union based upon findings of violations of certain provisions of the National Labor Relations Act. The Court of Appeals, Medina, Circuit Judge, held, inter alia, that discrimination for reasons wholly unrelated to union membership, loyalty, the... 1963 Cases Yes  
  National Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People V. Button 371 U.S. 415, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 5 (1/14/1963) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People brought suit against the Attorney General of Virginia and others for a declaration that certain Virginia statutes are unconstitutional. The Circuit Court for the City of Richmond entered a decree adverse to the NAACP, and it appealed. The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, 202 Va.... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  National Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People V. Thompson 321 F.2d 199, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 20619 (7/24/1963) Proceeding on a motion for injunction pending appeal from United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, William Harold Cox, Chief Judge. The Court of Appeals, Tuttle, Chief Judge, held that order stating that court would take under advisement, in view of complicated and difficult facets of case, plaintiffs' application for... 1963 Cases Yes  
  National Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People V. Webb's City, Inc. 152 So.2d 179, District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District, Docket Number 3609 (4/17/1963) Suit in equity for injunction against picketing and inducing customer boycott of plaintiff's place of business. The Circuit Court, Pinellas County, Jack F. White, J., granted the injunction and defendants appealed. The District Court of Appeal, Barns, Paul D., Associate Judge, held that weighing plaintiff's interest in its commercial expectancies... 1963 Cases Yes This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Negro Defendants and Southern Lawyers: Review in Federal Habeas Corpus of Systematic Exclusion of Negroes from Juries 72 Yale Law Journal 559 (January, 1963) In a habeas corpus proceeding brought by a state prisoner, a federal district court is asked to determine whether a state conviction was in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the United States. The principle underlying review in habeas corpus of all federal questions involved in state dispositions seems to be that a federal forum should... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Nesmith V. Alford 318 F.2d 110, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 19609 (5/30/1963) Action for false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, and violation of civil rights, brought against police commissioner, police chief and officers, by white persons who were arrested when they were eating peaceably with Negroes in restaurant and were subsequently tried for disorderly conduct. The United States District Court for the Middle... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  New Jersey Home Builders Ass'n V. Division on Civil Rights in Dept. Of Ed. Of State 81 N.J.Super. 243, Superior Court of New Jersey. Chancery Division, Docket Number C-2196 (11/13/1963) Action by home builders' association, association of real estate boards and individual real estate broker for declaratory judgment to invalidate certain portions of the Law Against Discrimination. The Superior Court, Chancery division, Wick, J.S.C., held that only the individual plaintiff had the standing to sue and that the law did not represent... 1963 Cases Yes  
Jonathan A. Wiss One Man's Stand for Freedom, Mr. Justice Black and the Bill of Rights. Edited by Irving Dilliard. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1963. Pp. Xiii, 504. $6.95 72 Yale Law Journal 1665 (Summer, 1963) Justice Black is best known among the public for his strong support of individual freedoms. It is too seldom recognized, however, that he finds warrant for the positions he takes not solely in his personal political commitment to individual liberty, but also in his conception of what model our nation's fundamental document has constituted for... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
  Peterson V. City of Greenville, S. C. 373 U.S. 244, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 71 (5/20/1963) Defendants, Negro boys and girls who had sat at store lunch counter, were convicted in the Recorder's Court of the City of Greenville, South Carolina, for violating the state trespass statute. An appeal to the Greenville County Court was dismissed, and the Supreme Court of South Carolina, 239 S.C. 298, 122 S.E.2d 826, affirmed. Certiorari was... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Porter V. State 160 So.2d 104, Supreme Court of Florida, Docket Number 31854 (10/16/1963) Prosecution for murder. The Circuit Court for Martin County, C. Pfeiffer Trowbridge, J., entered a judgment of conviction of first degree murder and the defendant appealed. The Supreme Court, O'Connell, J., held that testimony showing that 10.8% of registered voters in county were Negroes while only 1.2% of grand jury list were Negroes was... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Potts V. Flax 313 F.2d 284, United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit, Docket Number 19639 (2/6/1963) School desegregation action brought by two adults on behalf of their named children and on behalf of all other Negro children similarly situated. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Leo Brewster, J., 204 F.Supp. 458, made an order requiring the school district to file within a prescribed period of time a plan for... 1963 Cases Yes This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Presumption of Unconstitutionality Applied to Pupil Placement Plan 63 Columbia Law Review 546 (March, 1963) A desegregation plan, prepared by defendant Rose Hill-Minquadale District and approved by defendant State Board of Education of Delaware, established two school districts and provided for pupil placement in elementary schools on the basis of residence within a designated attendance area. The Hillside District, comprising one relatively small... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
H. Thomas Austern Price Discrimination under the Robinson-patman Act 76 Harvard Law Review 662 (January, 1963) In the closing moments of debate on the Robinson-Patman Act in June 1936, the exasperated Congressman Celler forecast for his colleagues: You might as well know that the bill finally agreed upon by the conferees contains many inconsistencies, and the courts will have the devil's own job to unravel the tangle. Mr. Rowe's monumental and scholarly... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
Louis Lusky Racial Discrimination and the Federal Law: a Problem in Nullification 63 Columbia Law Review 1163 (November, 1963) Gradualism has come to be regarded as a dirty word among Negroes. Ever louder is their demand for equality now. Consider the Negro father whose nine-year-old child attends the same Mississippi school he himself attended, and his own father before him. In the year in which the child was born, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that racial... 1963 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources Yes  
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