WILLIS v. PICKRICK RESTAURANT

Civ. A. No. 9028.

231 F.Supp. 396 (1964)

George WILLIS, Jr., Woodrow T. Lewis, and Albert L. Dunn, Plaintiffs, Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney General, Intervenor, v. The PICKRICK RESTAURANT, a Corporation, and Lester G. Maddox, Defendants.

Untied States District Court N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

July 22, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Alexander, Atlanta, Ga., Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley and Michael Meltsner, New York City, and Burke Marshall and St. John Barrett, Asst. Attys. Gen., Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs and intervenor.

Sidney T. Schell, Atlanta, Ga., and William G. McRae, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals, and HOOPER and MORGAN, District Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This suit was filed by the three named plaintiffs, all Negroes, for themselves and for the class consisting of all other Negroes, seeking an injunction restraining the defendants from violating the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in connection with their operation of a large restaurant in the City of Atlanta.

The United States was permitted to intervene as it is authorized to do under Section 204 of the Act, upon proper certification...

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