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KASPER v. BRITTAIN

No. 13046.

245 F.2d 92 (1957)

John KASPER, Appellant, v. D. J. BRITTAIN, Jr., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

June 1, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Benjamin Simmons, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Donald B. MacGuineas, Washington, D. C. (W. B. Lewallen, Sidney Davis, Walter E. Fischer, Clinton, Tenn., George Cochran Doub, Warren Olney, III, Warren F. Schwartz, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., John C. Crawford, Jr., Knoxville, Tenn., on the brief), for appellees.

Before SIMONS, Chief Judge, and McALLISTER and MILLER, Circuit Judges.

SIMONS, Chief Judge.

The appellant was found guilty of a criminal contempt by the district judge in wilfully disregarding and violating the court's order of August 29, 1956, in a school segregation case. He was sentenced to be confined in some institution to be designated by the Attorney General of the United States for a period of one year, and was admitted to bail pending appeal. He challenges the order on constitutional, jurisdictional and procedural grounds.<...

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