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SHELTON v. McKINLEY

Civ. No. 3708.

174 F.Supp. 351 (1959)

B. T. SHELTON et al., Plaintiffs, v. Ed. I. McKINLEY, Jr., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Arkansas, W. D.

June 8, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. R. Booker, Christopher C. Mercer, Jr., Harold B. Anderson and Thad D. Williams, Little Rock, Ark., for plaintiffs.

Herschel H. Friday, of Mehaffy, Smith & Williams, Little Rock, Ark., and Louis L. Ramsay, Jr., of Coleman, Gantt & Ramsay, Pine Bluff, Ark., for defendants.

Before SANBORN, Circuit Judge, and MILLER and HENLEY, District Judges.

PER CURIAM.

This is a class action in which the plaintiffs1 seek declaratory and injunctive relief against the enforcement of Act 10 of the Second Extraordinary Session of the Arkansas Legislature, held in August, 1958, and of Act 115 of the regular 1959 session of that body. It is claimed that those statutes are violative of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Upon the filing of the complaint...

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