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UNITED STATES v. JACK SABIN'S PRIVATE CLUB

Civ. A. No. 3344.

265 F.Supp. 90 (1967)

UNITED STATES of America, by Nicholas DeB. KATZENBACH, Attorney General of the United States, v. JACK SABIN'S PRIVATE CLUB, a nonprofit corporation, Jack Sabin, Suzanne S. Sample, and Betty Sabin, Individually, and as Officers and Trustees of Jack Sabin's Private Club.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

March 10, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach, Atty. Gen., John Doar, Asst. Atty. Gen., Louis C. LaCour, U. S. Atty., Eastern Dist. of Louisiana, New Orleans, La., D. Robert Owen, Atty., Dept. of Justice, John H. Bingler, Jr., Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Wade H. Heaton, Roy F. Cangelosi, Jr., Kizer, Heaton, Craig & Cangelosi, Baton Rouge, La., for defendants.

WEST, District Judge.

The restaurant and lounge known as Jack Sabin's Private Club, located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is an eating establishment which offers its facilities to members of the white race only. Its owner justifies this practice by his assertion that he operates a "private club," not open to the public. The plaintiff, the United States Attorney General, brings this suit pursuant to authority granted by Section 206 of the Civil Rights Act, of 1964, 42...

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