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UNITED STATES v. STATE OF LOUISIANA

Civ. A. No. 2548.

225 F.Supp. 353 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF LOUISIANA, Jimmie H. Davis, C. C. Aycock, J. Thomas Jewel, as Members of the Board of Registration of the State of Louisiana, and Hugh E. Cutrer, Jr., Director and ex officio Secretary of the Board of Registration of the State of Louisiana, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

Dissenting Opinion December 31, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Kennedy, Burke Marshall, Washington, D. C., Louis Lacour, New Orleans, La., John Doar, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Carroll Buck, Harry J. Kron, Jr., Baton Rouge, La., Henry Roberts, Jr., Weldon Cousins, John Jackson, New Orleans, La., Thomas W. McFerrin, Baton Rouge, La., for defendants.

Before WISDOM, Circuit Judge, and CHRISTENBERRY and WEST, District Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

A wall stands in Louisiana between registered voters and unregistered, eligible Negro voters. The wall is the State constitutional requirement that an applicant for registration "understand and give a reasonable interpretation of any section" of the Constitutions of Louisiana or of the United States. It is not the only wall of its kind, but since the Supreme Court's demolishment of the white primary, the interpretation test has been the highest...

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