1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. F.Supp.
  4. 240 F.Supp.
  5. 240 F.Supp. 550 (1965)
 

LANKFORD v. SCHMIDT

Civ. No. 16080.

240 F.Supp. 550 (1965)

Samuel James LANKFORD and Corinthia Julia Lankford, his wife, Claude Tompkins and Rev. Elizabeth Tompkins, his wife, Walter Summers and Regina Summers, his wife, and Arthur Rayner v. Bernard J. SCHMIDT, as Commissioner of Police of Baltimore City.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

April 14, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Tucker R. Dearing and W. A. C. Hughes, Jr., Baltimore, Md., James M. Nabrit, III, Melvin Zarr and Jack Greenberg, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Thomas B. Finan, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Robert C. Murphy, Deputy Atty. Gen., and John W. Sause, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md., for defendant.

Robert E. Coughlan, Jr., H. Vernon Eney and William L. Marbury, Baltimore, Md., amici curiae.

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

In this action brought under 28 U.S. C.A. § 1343 and 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983, plaintiffs seek an injunction restraining the Police Commissioner and the police officers of Baltimore City from continuing or resuming certain alleged practices which are claimed to be in violation of (A) the rights of plaintiffs and other residents of Baltimore under the Fourth Amendment, enforceable against the States through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases