WALLACE v. BREWER

Civ. A. No. 2988-N.

315 F.Supp. 431 (1970)

John D. WALLACE, Orzell Billingsley, Jr., Jimmy Holmes, Joe Sledge, and John Henry Davis, for themselves and jointly and severally for all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Albert BREWER, as Governor of Alabama and his successors, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Alabama, N. D.

June 9, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Morgan, Jr., and Reber F. Boult, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., Jack Drake, Tuscaloosa, Ala., Jim Keenan, New Orleans, La., and George W. Dean, Destin, Fla., for plaintiffs.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., of Ala., and Gordon Madison, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for defendant officials of the State of Alabama and the Legislative Commission to Preserve the Peace, its director and members.

Hugh A. Locke, Jr., Locke & Locke, Birmingham, Ala., for all other defendants—"RID" and its leaders, Pine Forest Missionary Baptist Church and its trustees.

Before RIVES, Circuit Judge, and GROOMS and JOHNSON, District Judges.


OPINION

PER CURIAM:

Plaintiffs Wallace, Billingsley, Holmes, Sledge and Davis brought this action seeking injunctive relief against defendants. Specifically, plaintiffs request a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining defendants: (1) from enforcing certain Alabama statutes under which plaintiffs have been arrested;1 (2) from conduct harassing, threatening, and interfering with plaintiffs in exercising...

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