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BAILEY v. PATTERSON

No. ___.

368 U.S. 346 (1961)

BAILEY ET AL. v. PATTERSON ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 18, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Constance Baker Motley, Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III and R. Jess Brown for movants.

Joe T. Patterson, Attorney General of Mississippi, Charles Clark and Peter M. Stockett, Special Assistant Attorneys General, and Dugas Shands and Edward L. Cates, Assistant Attorneys General, for Patterson et al., and Thomas H. Watkins for the City of Jackson et al., respondents.

Solicitor General Cox, Assistant Attorney General Marshall, Harold H. Greene and Howard A. Glickstein filed a memorandum for the United States, as amicus curiae, in support of the motion.

PER CURIAM.

This is a motion for an injunction to stay the prosecution of a number of criminal cases in the courts of Mississippi pending an appeal to this Court from the judgment of a three-judge Federal District Court. A federal injunction to stay state criminal proceedings is an extraordinary remedy. Cf. Douglas v. City of Jeannette, 319 U.S. 157; Ex parte Young, 209 U.S. 123....

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