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UNITED STATES v. BEATY

Nos. 14433, 14434.

288 F.2d 653 (1961)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. A. T. BEATY et al., Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. R. J. BARCROFT et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

April 6, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Doar, Civil Rights Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Harold R. Tyler, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Harold H. Greene and J. Harold Flannery, Jr., Attys. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Elmore Holmes, III, Philip L. Peeler, C. P. J. Mooney, Lucius E. Burch, Jr. (as amicus curiae), Burch, Porter, Johnson & Brown, Rives Manker, C. C. Gillespie, John S. Montedonico, Daniel D. Canale, Memphis, Tenn., Lawrence W. Morgan, Brownsville, Tenn., for appellees.

Thomas R. Prewitt, Robert E. Joyner, Memphis, Tenn., and Lawrence W. Morgan, L. Kirby Matherne, Brownsville, Tenn., on the brief, for appellees.

Robert W. Sturdivant, Trabue, Minick, Sturdivant & Harbison, Nashville, Tenn., and L. K. Matherne, Brownsville, Tenn., on the brief, for appellee Mrs. Frances Moore Woodson.

Before CECIL, WEICK and O'SULLIVAN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

These appeals are from an order of the United States District Court, for the Western District of Tennessee, denying a motion for a preliminary injunction pending the hearing and determination of the merits of the plaintiff's causes of action.

The United States of America, as plaintiff, filed an amended complaint in case number 4065, on the 18th of November, 1960, under section 1971(b) of Title 42 U.S.C.A., known as the Civil Rights Act. Seventy...

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