HAWKINS v. NORTH CAROLINA DENTAL SOCIETY

Civ. A. No. 1505.

230 F.Supp. 805 (1964)

Reginald A. HAWKINS, on behalf of himself and others similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. NORTH CAROLINA DENTAL SOCIETY, an unincorporated association, and its officers, W. B. Sherrod, President, L. Franklin Bumgardner, Vice-President, Luther Butler, President-elect, and S. B. Towler, Secretary-Treasurer, Second District Dental Society, Component of the North Carolina Dental Society, an unincorporated association and its officers, William F. Yelton, President, James A. Harrell, President-elect, Fleming H. Stone, Vice-President, O. J. Freund, Editor, and James E. Graham, Secretary-Treasurer, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. North Carolina, Charlotte Division.

June 19, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. H. Wyche, Charlotte, N. C., Conrad O. Pearson, Durham, N. C., Frank H. Heffron, Jack Greenberg and Jack Nabritt, III, New York City, for plaintiff.

Joyner & Howison, Raleigh, N. C., for defendants.


WARLICK, District Judge.

In this action, plaintiff, a Negro citizen, suing on behalf of himself and other Negro dentists similarly situated, seeks injunctive relief alleging that the defendants have discriminated against him because of his race in violation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The relief sought in plaintiff's prayer is an injunction forever restraining defendants from excluding plaintiff and all others similarly...

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