N. A. A. C. P. v. THOMPSON

No. 20619.

321 F.2d 199 (1963)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE et al., Appellants, v. Allen THOMPSON, Mayor of the City of Jackson, Mississippi et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 24, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Derrick A. Bell, Jr., New York City, Jack H. Young, Jackson, Miss., William R. Ming, Jr., Chicago, Ill., Robert L. Carter, New York City, R. Jess Brown, Jackson, Miss., Jack Greenberg and Barbara A. Morris, New York City, for appellants.

E. W. Stennett and Thomas H. Watkins, Jackson, Miss., for appellees.

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


TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

This is a motion for an injunction pending appeal. Section 1292, 28 U.S. C.A. permits an appeal from an interlocutory order by a trial court "granting, continuing, modifying, refusing or dissolving injunctions * * *." Section 1651, 28 U.S.C.A., commonly known as the All-Writs statute, gives to Courts of Appeals the power to issue "all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles...

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