BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LA. STATE U., ETC. v. TUREAUD

No. 15540.

225 F.2d 434 (1955)

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE et al., Appellants, v. Alexander P. TUREAUD, Jr., a Minor, by Alexander P. Tureaud, Sr., his father and next friend, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 23, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Scott Wilkinson, Shreveport, La., L. H. Perez, New Orleans, La., L. W. Brooks, C. V. Porter, J. R. Fuller, Baton Rouge, La., Fred S. Leblanc, Attorney General of La., W. C. Perrault, First Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Clyde Pearce, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. H. Tucker, Jr., Shreveport, La., Fred Blanche, Baton Rouge, La., Arthur O'Quin, Shreveport, La., Victor A. Sachse, Baton Rouge, La., R. B. Sadler, Jr., Alexandria, La., C. C. Bird, Jr., Baton Rouge, La., H. C. Sevier, Tallulah, La., A. J. Shepard, Jr., Lake Charles, La., Grove Stafford, Alexandria, La., Oliver Stockwell, Lake Charles, La., Wood H. Thompson, Monroe, La., Taylor, Porter, Brooks, Fuller & Phillips, Baton Rouge, La., Wilkinson, Lewis & Wilkinson, Shreveport, La., of counsel, for appellants.

Robert L. Carter, New York City, A. P. Tureaud, New Orleans, La., U. S. Tate, Dallas, Tex., and Thurgood Marshall, New York City, for appellee.

Before RIVES and CAMERON, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

As in the Delaware case, Gebhart v. Belton, 1954, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873; (Brown v. Board of Education), 349 U.S. 294, 75 S.Ct. 753; this case was based on the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine announced in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, 16 S.Ct. 1138, 41 L.Ed. 256. The district court treated the case as if it presented only...

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