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ABERNATHY v. PATTERSON

No. 19023.

295 F.2d 452 (1961)

Ralph D. ABERNATHY et al., Appellants, v. John PATTERSON, Individually and as Governor of Alabama, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

October 31, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. Conley, Montgomery, Ala., Eugene Cotton, Richard F. Watt, Cotton, Fruchtman & Watt, Chicago, Ill., for appellants.

M. Roland Nachman, Jr., Robert P. Bradley, Sam Rice Baker, Montgomery, Ala., Steiner, Crum & Baker, Montgomery, Ala., of counsel, for appellees.

Before RIVES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges, and CARSWELL, District Judge.

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

The complaint filed by four Negro ministers describes this action as "a suit of a civil nature to redress the deprivation under color of state law, statutes, ordinances, regulations, custom or usage, of rights, privileges and immunities secured by the Constitution of the United States and by Acts of Congress providing for equal rights of citizens and all persons within the jurisdiction of the United...

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