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BAILEY v. PATTERSON

Civ. A. No. 3133.

206 F.Supp. 67 (1962)

Samuel BAILEY, Joseph Broadwater and Burnett L. Jacob, Plaintiffs, v. Joe T. PATTERSON, Attorney General of the State of Mississippi, The City of Jackson, Mississippi, Allen C. Thompson, Mayor, Douglas L. Luckey, Commissioner, Thomas B. Marshall, Commissioner, W. D. Rayfield, Chief of Police of the City of Jackson, Mississippi, Jackson Municipal Airport Authority, Continental Southern Lines, Inc., Southern Greyhound Lines, Illinois Central Railroad, Inc., Jackson City Lines, Inc., and Cicero Carr, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

April 7, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Constance Baker Motley and Derrick A. Bell, New York City, R. Jess Brown, Vicksburg, Miss. for plaintiffs.

Thomas H. Watkins, J. A. Travis, Robert G. Nichols, Jr., E. W. Stennett, Jackson, Miss., for city of Jackson.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., State of Mississippi, Dugas Shands, Edward L. Cates, Peter M. Stockett, Jr., Charles Clark, Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for the State of Mississippi.

Robert C. Cannada and Junior O'Mara, Jackson, Miss., for Southern Greyhound Lines and Continental.

Sidney Smith, Jackson, Miss., for Illinois Central R. R. Co.

J. W. Young and James Young, Jackson, Miss., for Jackson City Lines.

Colin L. Stockdale (Now deceased) Jackson, Miss., for Cicero Carr.

Rubel L. Phillips, Jackson, Miss., Jackson Airport Authority.

MIZE, Chief Judge.

This action was brought by three Negro citizens and residents of Jackson, Mississippi, to enjoin the alleged enforcement of certain Mississippi statutes which are alleged to be unconstitutional. The statutes sought to be enjoined are Title 11, Sections 2351, 2351.5 and 2351.7, and Title 28, Secs. 7784, 7785, 7786, 7786-01, 7787, 7787.5, Mississippi Code Annotated (1942), hereinafter referred to as Mississippi segregation statutes. Plaintiffs attack...

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