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UNITED STATES v. U. S. KLANS, KNIGHTS OF KU KLUX KLAN, INC.

Civ. A. No. 1718-N.

194 F.Supp. 897 (1961)

UNITED STATES, Plaintiff, v. U. S. KLANS, KNIGHTS OF KU KLUX KLAN, INC., a corporation; Alabama Knights, Knights of Ku Klux Klan, Inc., a corporation; Alvin Horn; Robert M. Shelton; Thurman E. Ouzts; Claude V. Henley; Lester B. Sullivan, Commissioner of Public Affairs of Montgomery; and Goodwin J. Ruppenthal, Chief of Police of Montgomery, Defendants.

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

June 2, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Doar and Carl Eardley, Attys., U. S. Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Hartwell Davis, U. S. Atty., Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff.

James R. Venable, Atlanta, Ga., W. Clarence Atkeison, Prattville, Ala., for defendants U. S. Klans, Knights of Ku Klux Klan, Inc., and Alvin Horn.

Dees & Fuller, Montgomery, Ala., for defendant Claude V. Henley.

James D. Hammonds, Bessemer, Ala., for defendants Alabama Knights, Knights of Ku Klux Klan, Inc., and Robert M. Shelton.

Calvin Whitesell, Montgomery, Ala., for Lester B. Sullivan and Goodwin J. Ruppenthal.

Thurman E. Ouzts, pro se.

JOHNSON, District Judge.

This cause is now submitted upon the motion of the plaintiff, United States, seeking to have this Court grant a preliminary injunction, enjoining the defendants U. S. Klans, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., a corporation; Alabama Knights, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., a corporation; Federated Ku Klux Klan, Inc., an unincorporated association represented by Lester C. Hawkins; Alvin Horn, Robert M. Shelton, Lester C. Hawkins, Thurman...

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