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JORDAN v. HUTCHESON

No. 8834.

323 F.2d 597 (1963)

Joseph A. JORDAN, Jr., E. A. Dawley, Jr., and L. W. Holt, Appellants, v. J. C. HUTCHESON, Chairman, Virginia's Legislative Committee on Offenses Against the Administration of Justice, William King, counsel for the Committee, Honorable Charles Leavitt, City Sergeant, and Committee on Offenses Against the Administration of Justice, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 17, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shirley Fingerhood, New York City (Melvin L. Wulf and Sanford M. Katz, New York City, and Jordan, Dawley & Holt, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellants.

William H. King, Richmond, Va. (Robert Y. Button, Atty. Gen., of Virginia, on brief), for appellees.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and BOREMAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges.

J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judge.

This is a class action brought by three Negro attorneys of Norfolk, Virginia, against a Committee of the Virginia State Legislature, its Chairman, its counsel, and a process agent of the City of Norfolk for equitable relief under the provisions of the Civil Rights Acts, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983. Federal jurisdiction is asserted under 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3). The complaint prays for temporary and permanent injunctions from...

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