CHRISTIAN v. JEMISON

No. 19120.

303 F.2d 52 (1962)

Jack CHRISTIAN, etc., et al., Appellants, v. Theodore J. JEMISON et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 15, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Gordon Kean, Jr., Parish Atty., F. W. Middleton, Jr., John V. Parker and J. Dawson Gasquet, Asst. Parish Attys., Taylor, Porter, Brooks, Fuller & Phillips, Baton Rouge, La., for Baton Rouge Bus Co., Inc., appellants.

A. P. Tureaud, New Orleans, La., Constance Baker Motley, James M. Nabrit, III, Jack Greenberg, Derrick A. Bell, New York City, for appellees.

Before RIVES, BROWN, and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs, Negroes living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, brought this action on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated for an injunction against the enforcement of Section 118, Title 10, Chapter 2 of the Baton Rouge City Code of 1951. This ordinance requires local transportation companies to segregate the seating of white and Negro passengers.1 The district court granted

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