CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY v. DOUGLAS

No. 19724.

318 F.2d 95 (1963)

The CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY, John Doe and Mary Doe, Appellants, v. C. H. DOUGLAS, individually and as Mayor of the City Of McComb City, Mississippi, and Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey McGehee, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 15, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Derrick A. Bell, Jr., Carl Rachlin, New York City, Lolis Elie, New Orleans, La., Stephen C. Vladeck, Robert Emmett Burns, Norman Dorsen, New York City, Robert Collins, Nils Douglas, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellants.

Peter M. Stockett, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss., Charles Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss., William A. Wiltshire, McComb, Miss., Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, Dugas Shands, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, Louis Alford, McComb, Miss., of counsel, for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and WISDOM and GEWIN, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a preliminary injunction obtained by the Mayor, acting individually and as Mayor of the City of McComb City, Mississippi, and Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey McGehee, the owners of a restaurant in a Greyhound Bus Station against CORE forbidding the defendant from sponsoring, encouraging or financing persons to utilize the terminal facilities in the City of McComb City, Mississippi, "for the...

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