UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff,
v.
Cecil MANNING, as Registrar of Voters of East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, and the State of Louisiana, Defendants.
United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Monroe Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
February 23, 1963.
February 23, 1963.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
St. John Barrett, Frank M. Dunbaugh, Gerald P. Choppin, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Edward L. Shaheen, U. S. Atty. for Western Dist. of Louisiana, for plaintiff.
Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, Carroll Buck, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Albin P. Lassiter, Dist. Atty., Fourth Judicial District, Thompson L. Clarke, Dist. Atty., Sixth Judicial District, Harry J. Kron, Jr., William P. Schuler, Asst. Attys. Gen., Thomas W. McFerrin, Sp. Counsel, Cecil Manning, as Registrar of Voters of East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, and the State of Louisiana, for defendants.
Before WISDOM, Circuit Judge, and CHRISTENBERRY and HUNTER, District Judges.
United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Monroe Division.
WISDOM, Circuit Judge.
In this action the State of Louisiana strikes at the vitals of the Civil Rights Act of 1960. These vitals are the power of a federal district court to make a finding of a pattern of discrimination in the denial of registration to Negroes and the concomitant power of the court itself to redress the grievance or to use a voting referee, should the court decide to utilize a referee as an arm of the...
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