BELL v. GEORGIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION

Civ. A. No. 7966.

231 F.Supp. 299 (1964)

R. C. BELL, Clinton Warner, Ruby Doris Smith, by her mother and next friend, Alice Banks Smith, Edwina M. Smith, John A. Middleton, Dorothy F. Cotton and Septima P. Clark, Plaintiffs, v. The GEORGIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION, The Northern District Dental Society et al., Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

February 3, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald Hollowell and Horace T. Ward, Atlanta, Ga., Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, and Michael Meltsner, New York City, for plaintiff.

Jones, Bird & Howell, Atlanta, Ga., for Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority and Frank Wilson.

Trammell Shi and Paul M. Conaway, Macon, Ga., for Georgia Dental Association, W. Edgar Coleman and Northern District Dental Society, Jas. H. Sherard.


HOOPER, Chief Judge.

Defendants, The Georgia Dental Association and The Northern District Dental Society (together with their Presidents, also joined herein) have filed a motion to dismiss the above action based primarily upon the contention that they constitute voluntary associations of professional men whose acts herein complained of are not acts under color of law as contemplated by the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution

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