JOHN R. THOMPSON CO. v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Nos. 11039, 11044.

203 F.2d 579 (1953)

JOHN R. THOMPSON CO., Inc. v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. JOHN R. THOMPSON CO., Inc.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Writ of Certiorari Granted April 6, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ringgold Hart, Washington, D. C., John J. Wilson and Jo V. Morgan, Jr., Washington, D. C., on the brief), for John R. Thompson Co., Inc., appellant in No. 11039 and appellee in No. 11044.

Chester H. Gray, Principal Assistant Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia, Vernon E. West, Corporation Counsel, Edward A. Beard, Assistant Corporation Counsel, and Clark F. King, Assistant Corporation Counsel, on the brief, for the District of Columbia, appellee in No. 11039 and appellant in No. 11044.

Phineas Indritz and S. Walter Shine, Washington, D. C., by special leave of Court, for American Civil Liberties Union, Inc., et al., amici curiae.

Philip B. Perlman, Solicitor General, Washington, D. C., filed a brief on behalf of the United States of America as amicus curiae, urging the validity of the Equal Service Acts of 1872 and 1873.

James A. Cobb, Harry C. Lamberton and Joseph Forer, Washington, D. C., filed a brief on behalf of the District of Columbia Chapter, National Lawyers Guild, as amicus curiae, urging the validity of the Equal Service Acts of 1872 and 1873.

Margaret A. Haywood, Washington, D. C., filed a brief on behalf of A. Powell Davies, et al., as amici curiae, urging the validity of the Equal Service Acts of 1872 and 1873.

Phineas Indritz and George Bunn, Washington, D. C., filed a brief on behalf of the American Veterans Committee, Inc., as amicus curiae, urging the validity of the Equal Service Acts of 1872 and 1873.

Before STEPHENS, Chief Judge, and EDGERTON, CLARK, WILBUR K. MILLER, PRETTYMAN, PROCTOR, BAZELON, FAHY and WASHINGTON, Circuit Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Granted April 6, 1953. See 73 S.Ct. 784.

Chief Judge STEPHENS announced the judgment of the court and an opinion in which Circuit Judge CLARK, Circuit Judge MILLER and Circuit Judge PROCTOR concurred, and in the result of which Circuit Judge PRETTYMAN concurred.

By the Act of February 21, 1871, 16 Stat. 419, c. LXII, the Congress created a Legislative Assembly for the District of Columbia, consisting...

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