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UNITED STATES v. GULF-STATE THEATERS, INC.

No. GC6450.

256 F.Supp. 549 (1966)

UNITED STATES of America, by Nicholas deB. KATZENBACH, Attorney General of the United States, Plaintiff, v. GULF-STATE THEATERS, INC., a corporation, et al., Defendants.

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

June 29, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Kennedy, Atty. Gen., Burke Marshall, Asst. Atty. Gen., 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, 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 Attorney General pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 2000a-5(a) to obtain injunctive relief against an alleged pattern or practice of resistance by the owners and operators of motion picture theaters to the full enjoyment by Negroes of rights secured by 42 U.S.C. § 2000a(a). The defendant Gulf-State Theaters, Inc. was alleged to be the operator of a chain of twenty-four theaters in Mississippi whose operations affected commerce...

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