N.A.A.C.P. v. HUNT

No. 89-7245.

891 F.2d 1555 (1990)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (NAACP), a corporation suing through its Alabama Conference of Branches, Thomas Reed, Alvin Holmes, James E. Buskey, John L. Buskey, William Clark, Patricia Davis, George W. Grayson, Bobbie G. McDowdell, Bryant Melton, Jr., George Perdue, John W. Rogers, Jr., Lewis G. Spratt, Michael A. Figures, Earl F. Hilliard and Henry Sanders, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Guy HUNT, individually and as Governor of the State of Alabama; Cecil Humphrey, individually and as Chief of Capitol Security; G. Robin Swift, Jr., individually and as Finance Director, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 16, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernestine S. Sapp, Fred D. Gray, Gray, Langford, Sapp & McGowan, Tuskegee, Ala., Grover G. Hankins, Gen. Counsel, N.A.A.C.P., Sp. Contribution Fund, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Alex L. Holtsford, Jr., Nix & Holsford, H.E. Nix, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before JOHNSON and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges, and PECKHAM, Senior District Judge.


JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-Appellants, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. ("NAACP"), appeal the district court's grant of summary judgment for defendants Hunt, et al. ("the state") on the NAACP's claims under 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 1983 and 1988, 36 U.S.C.A. § 175(c) (the United States Flag Code), the First, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and, under Alabama state law, conspiracy...

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