DOMBROWSKI ET AL.
v.
PFISTER, CHAIRMAN, JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES OF THE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE, ET AL.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued January 25, 1965.
Decided April 26, 1965.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Leon Hubert and Arthur Kinoy argued the cause for appellants. With them on the brief were William M. Kunstler, Michael J. Kunstler and A. P. Tureaud.
John E. Jackson, Jr., Assistant Attorney General of Louisiana, and Jack N. Rogers argued the cause for appellees. With them on the brief for appellees Pfister et al. were Jack P. F. Gremillion, Attorney General of Louisiana, and Dorothy D. Wolbrettee, Assistant Attorney General. With Mr. Rogers on the brief for appellee Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities was Robert H. Reiter. Mr. Reiter also filed a brief for appellee Davis. Appellee Jim Garrison filed a brief pro se.
Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal, were filed by Jack Greenberg, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., and Jay H. Topkis for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund; by Louis Lusky and Melvin L. Wulf for the American Civil Liberties Union et al.; and by Ernest Goodman and David Rein for the National Lawyers Guild.
Supreme Court of United States.
MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.
Appellants filed a complaint in the District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, invoking the Civil Rights Act, Rev. Stat. § 1979, 42 U. S. C. § 1983 (1958 ed.), and seeking declaratory relief and an injunction restraining appellees—the Governor, police and law enforcement officers, and the Chairman of the Legislative Joint Committee on Un-American...
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