Mrs. Margaret M. LARCHE et al., in Their Individual Capacities and as Registrars of Voters in and for Their Parishes, of the State of Louisiana
v.
John A. HANNAH et al., Individually and as Members of The Commission on Civil Rights.
J. A. H. SLAWSON et al.,
v.
John A. HANNAH et al.
United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
July 12, 1959.
July 12, 1959.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., George M. Ponder, First Asst. Atty. Gen., William M. Shaw and Ferdinand A. Cashio, Asst. Attys. Gen., M. E. Culligan, New Orleans, La., John E. Jackson, Jr., New Orleans, La., William P. Schuler, New Orleans, La., N. Cleburn Dalton, Baton Rouge, La., W. Scott Wilkinson, Frank J. Looney, Sr., Shreveport, La., Louis H. Padgett, Jr., Bossier City, La., Albin P. Lassiter, Monroe, La., Fred Jackson, Homer, La., Thompson L. Clarke, St. Joseph, La., Cameron C. Minard, Columbia, La., H. Lester Hughes, Natchitoches, La., Richard H. Kilbourne, Clinton, La., France W. Watts, Jr., Franklinton, La., J. Reuel Boone, Many, La., for plaintiffs, Mrs. Margaret M. Larche, and others.
William M. Shaw, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Louisiana, for plaintiffs, J. A. H. Slawson and others.
Robert G. Storey, Vice-Chairman, Dallas, Tex., Gordon M. Tiffany, Director, Washington, D. C., Berl I. Bernhard, Chevy Chase, Md., A. William Mottolese, Washington, D. C., Attys. for Commission on Civil Rights, Charles Ed. Clark, Falls Church, Va., Legal Assistant to the Honorable Robert G. Storey, for defendants.
United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division.
BEN C. DAWKINS, Jr., Chief Judge.
We are called upon here to pass tentatively upon one of the burning issues of our time—the propriety and validity of the Rules and Proceedings of the Civil Rights Commission, as established by Congress in September, 1957.1
That Commission now proposes to hold a hearing, in the Federal Court room at Shreveport, Louisiana, on July 13, 1959, to investigate purported violations of the civil...
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