CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY v. TOWN OF CLINTON

No. 20960.

346 F.2d 911 (1964)

CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY et al., Appellants, v. TOWN OF CLINTON and Parish of East Feliciana, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

September 22, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nils R. Douglas, Robert F. Collins, New Orleans, La., William M. Kunstler, Carl Rachlin, New York City, Murphy W. Bell, Baton Rouge, La., F. B. McKissick, Durham, N. C., Arthur Kinoy, New York City, for appellants.

R. G. Van Buskirk, Richard H. Kilbourne, Clinton, La., for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, WISDOM, Circuit Judge, and McRAE, District Judge.


TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

This appeal came on for preliminary consideration by the Court of the question of the appealability of an order of remand to the state courts of the state of Louisiana by the district court.

The litigation started by the filing of a suit on August 20, 1963, by the Town of Clinton and Parish of East Feliciana, Louisiana, against Congress of Racial Equality in the district court of the state of Louisiana. On that same day an ex parte temporary...

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