UNITED STATES v. WARD

No. 21235.

349 F.2d 795 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Katherine WARD (Louisiana), Registrar of Voters of Madison Parish, Louisiana, and the State of Louisiana, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 11, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold H. Greene, Gerald P. Choppin, Alan G. Marer, Attys., Dept of Justice, Burke Marshall, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edward Shaheen, U. S. Atty., John Doar, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, Harry Fuller, Carroll Buck, Harry J. Kron, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen. of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, La., Thompson L. Clarke, St. Joseph, La., James E. Phillips, Jr., Sp. Counsel, Baton Rouge, La., for appellees.

Before MARIS, RIVES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

The question in the Government's appeal in this § 1971(c), 42 U.S. C.A. § 1971(c), voter registration suit is whether, having found flagrant racial discrimination pursuant to a pattern or practice, the District Court should have applied the freezing principle to permit Negro applicants to be tested by the standards formerly applied to whites, rather than current higher standards applied to all. Answering in the affirmative,...

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