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MEREDITH v. FAIR

No. 19475.

328 F.2d 586 (1962)

James H. MEREDITH, Appellant, v. Charles Dickson FAIR et al., Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Amicus Curiae and Petitioner, v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

October 19, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Constance Baker Motley, New York City, R. Jess Brown, Vicksburg, Miss., for appellant.

Charles Clark, Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss., Dugas Shands, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss., for appellees.

Attorneys entered on show cause only:

John Doar, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Burke Marshall, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Walter Suthon, New Orleans, La., Francis T. Zachary, Hattiesburg, Miss., J. D. Doty, Pontotoc, Miss., W. H. Barbour, Yazoo City, Miss., Chester H. Curtis, Clarksdale, Miss., Will A. Hickman, Oxford, Miss., M. B. Montgomery and Edward L. Cates, Jackson, Miss., Orma R. Smith, Corinth, Miss., J. P. Coleman, and Ben H. Walley, Jackson, Miss., Fred B. Smith, Ripley, Miss., Charles L. Sullivan, Clarksdale, Miss.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and RIVES, JONES, BROWN, WISDOM, GEWIN and BELL, Circuit Judges.

ORDER AND JUDGMENT ON THE MOTION OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI TO DISSOLVE THE TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OF SEPTEMBER 25, 1962, TO DISMISS THE CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ROSS R. BARNETT and PAUL B. JOHNSON, JR., and ORDER AND JUDGMENT ON MOTION OF APPELLANT and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AMICUS CURIAE, PETITIONER, FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION.

This matter came on for hearing on October 12, 1962, pursuant to an order to show cause why a preliminary injunction should...

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