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STATE EX REL. HENO v. DRAKE

No. 1545.

176 So.2d 226 (1965)

STATE ex rel. Eugene Lewis HENO v. Naomi M. DRAKE, Individually and in her capacity as Director of the Bureau of Vital Statistics for the City of New Orleans.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

June 7, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, Wood Brown, III, New Orleans, for relator-appellant.

Alvin J. Liska and J. B. Kiefer, New Orleans, for respondent-appellee.

Before REGAN, SAMUEL and TURNER, JJ.

SAMUEL, Judge.

Relator seeks to enjoin the Deputy Registrar of the Bureau of Vital Statistics for the City of New Orleans: (1) from placing the racial designation "Negro" or "Colored" upon relator's birth registration, and (2) from placing such racial designation on records pertaining to members of relator's family (whose registrations directly affect relator). Additionally, in the event any such changes already have been made by respondent, relator asks that respondent...

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