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UNITED STATES v. SAMPSON

No. GC6449.

256 F.Supp. 470 (1966)

UNITED STATES of America by Nicholas deB. KATZENBACH, Attorney General of the United States, Plaintiff, v. Charles SAMPSON, Mayor of the City of Greenwood and Member of the Greenwood City Council, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

July 11, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Kennedy, Atty. Gen. of United States, Burke Marshal, Asst. Atty. Gen of United States, Washington, D. C., H. M. Ray, U. S. Atty., Oxford, Miss., St. John Barrett, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Hardy Lott and Stanny Sanders, Lott & Sanders, Greenwood, Miss., for defendants.

Before BROWN and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and CLAYTON, District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

This action was brought by the United States pursuant to section 206(a) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, [42 U.S.C. § 2000a-5(a)] against the Mayor, Police Commissioner, Chief of Police and Assistant Chief of Police of the City of Greenwood, Mississippi, to obtain injunctive relief against alleged violation of that Act by the defendants. Upon the Attorney General's request and upon his certification that in his opinion, the case is one of general...

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