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.
United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
October 7, 1959.
October 7, 1959.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, George M. Ponder, First Asst. Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, William M. Shaw, Ferdinand A. Cashio, Asst. Attys. Gen. of Louisiana, M. E. Culligan, New Orleans, La., John E. Jackson, Jr., William P. Schuler, New Orleans, La., N. Cleburn Dalton, Baton Rouge, La., W. Scott Wilkinson, Shreveport, La., Albin P. Lassiter, Monroe, La., Frank J. Looney, Sr., Shreveport, La., L. H. Padgett, Jr., Bossier City, 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 Watts, Jr., Franklinton, La., J. Reuel Boone, Many, La., for plaintiffs.
Robert G. Storey, Vice-Chairman, Commission on Civil Rights, Dallas, Tex., C. E. Clark, Washington, D. C., Legal Asst. to Robert G. Storey, W. Wilson White, Asst. Atty. Gen., T. Fitzhugh Wilson, U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., Gordon M. Tiffany, Director, Berl I. Bernhard, A. William Mottolese, Attys., Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, D. C., for defendants.
Bruce Bennett, Atty. Gen. of Arkansas, amicus curiae.
Before WISDOM, Circuit Judge, BEN C. DAWKINS, Jr., Chief Judge, and HUNTER, District Judge.
United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division.
HUNTER, District Judge.
This case originated in the Shreveport Division of the Western District of Louisiana upon the filing of a complaint on July 10, 1959. Plaintiffs are registrars of voters in and for certain parishes in Louisiana1. The Commission on Civil Rights is a temporary agency of the United States, created by the Civil Rights Act of 1957, under Public Law 85-315, 85th Congress, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1975 et seq. The Commission...
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