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MEREDITH v. FAIR

No. 19475.

306 F.2d 374 (1962)

James H. MEREDITH, on behalf of himself and others similarly situated, Appellant, v. Charles Dickson FAIR, President of the Board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 27, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mrs. C. B. Motley, New York City, R. Jess Brown, Vicksburg, Miss., for appellant.

Chas. Clark, Dugas Shands, Asst. Atty. Gen., Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for appellees.

Before BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges, and DeVANE, District Judge.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

In this case time is now of the quintessence. Time has been of the essence since January 1961 when James Meredith, in the middle of his junior year at Jackson State College (for Negroes), applied for admission to the University of Mississippi.

This Court heard three appeals of the case. In our opinion on the last appeal, 305 F.2d 341, we concluded:

"* * * [F]rom the moment the defendants discovered...

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