NATIONAL ASS'N FOR ADV. OF COLORED PEOPLE v. GALLION

Civ. A. No. 1622-N.

190 F.Supp. 583 (1960)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, a Corporation, Plaintiff, v. MacDonald GALLION, Attorney General of Alabama; Mrs. Bettye Frink, Secretary of State, State of Alabama, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Alabama, N. D.

August 11, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred D. Gray, Montgomery, Ala., Arthur D. Shores, Birmingham, Ala., and Robert L. Carter, New York City, for plaintiff.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., Willard W. Livingston, Chief Asst. Atty. Gen., Gordon Madison and Nicholas S. Hare, Asst. Attys. Gen., State of Alabama, for defendants.


FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., District Judge.

This is an action by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a Corporation, seeking to invoke the jurisdiction of this Court on the ground that plaintiff-corporation has a right in this Court to redress the deprivation, under color of the law of the State of Alabama, or custom, or usage by the officials of the State of Alabama, of a right, privilege or immunity secured to said corporation and/or its members...

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