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SIMKINS v. MOSES H. CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

No. C-57-G-62.

211 F.Supp. 628 (1962)

G. C. SIMKINS, Jr., A. V. Blount, Jr., Walter J. Hughes, Norman N. Jones, Girardeau Alexander, Milton H. Barnes, W. L. T. Miller, E. C. Noel, III, F. E. Davis, A. J. Taylor, and Donald R. Lyons, Plaintiffs, v. The MOSES H. CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, a Corporation, Harold Bettis, Director of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, and Wesley Long Community Hospital, a Corporation, and A. O. Smith, Administrator of the Wesley Long Community Hospital, Defendants, United States of America, Intervenor.

United States District Court M. D. North Carolina, Greensboro Division.

December 5, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, and Michael Meltsner, New York City, and Conrad O. Pearson, Durham, N. C., for plaintiffs.

Falk, Carruthers & Roth, Greensboro, N. C., for defendants Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital and Harold Bettis, Director of Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital.

McLendon, Brim, Holderness & Brooks, Greensboro, N. C., for defendant Wesley Long Community Hospital and A. O. Smith, Administrator of Wesley Long Community Hospital.

Burke Marshall, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., William H. Murdock, U. S. Atty. for Middle District of North Carolina, Greensboro, N. C., St. John Barrett, and Howard A. Glickstein, Attorneys, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for intervenor, United States of America.

STANLEY, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs, Negro citizens, suing on behalf of themselves and other Negro physicians, dentists and patients similarly situated, seek injunctive and declaratory relief, alleging that the defendants have discriminated against them because of their race, in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The relief sought is an injunction restraining the defendants from continuing to deny the admission of physicians...

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