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NATIONAL ASS'N FOR ADVANCE. OF COLORED PEOPLE v. PATTY

Civ. A. Nos. 2435, 2436.

159 F.Supp. 503 (1958)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, a corporation, N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Incorporated, a corporation, Plaintiffs, v. Kenneth C. PATTY, Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia; T. Gray Haddon, Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Richmond, Virginia; William J. Carleton, Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Newport News, Virginia; Linwood B. Tabb, Jr., Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Norfolk, Virginia; William J. Hassan, Commonwealth's Attorney for Arlington County, Virginia; and Frank N. Watkins, Commonwealth's Attorney for Prince Edward County, Virginia, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

January 21, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Carter, New York City, and Oliver W. Hill, Richmond, Va., for Nat. Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People.

Thurgood Marshall, New York City, and Spottswood W. Robinson, III, Richmond, Va., for N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

David J. Mays, Henry T. Wickham, John W. Edmonds, III, Richmond, Va., and Clarence F. Hicks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendants.

J. Segar Gravatt, Blackstone, Va., for Frank N. Watkins, Commonwealth's Atty. for Prince Edward County.

Before SOPER, Circuit Judge, HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and HOFFMAN, District Judge.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

These companion suits were brought by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., corporations of the State of New York, against the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Commonwealth Attorneys for the City of Richmond, the City of Newport News, the City of Norfolk, Arlington County and Prince Edward County, Virginia, to secure a declaratory judgment...

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