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CYPRESS v. NEWPORT NEWS GENERAL & NONSECTARIAN HOSP. ASS'N

No. 10672.

375 F.2d 648 (1967)

Goerge C. CYPRESS, Darnell Jackson, an infant, who sues by Dorothy Wright, his mother and next friend, and Sandra Rose Clark, an infant, who sues by Julia Clark, her mother and next friend, Appellants, v. The NEWPORT NEWS GENERAL AND NONSECTARIAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, Incorporated, a Virginia Corporation, Charles K. Hutchens, Registered Agent and Nelson L. St. Clair, Jr., Administrator, Riverside Hospital, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 9, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Meltsner, New York City (Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, New York City, Philip S. Walker, Newport News, Va., and Conrad K. Harper, New York City, on brief), for appellants.

Arthur B. Davies, III, Lynchburg, Va. (Phillips M. Dowding, Newport News, Va., and Hickson, Davies & Lyle, Lynchburg, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and SOBELOFF, BOREMAN, BRYAN, BELL, WINTER and CRAVEN, Circuit Judges.

SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, a Negro pediatrician and two of his patients, brought this class action for an injunction against the racially discriminatory policies and practices of the Riverside Hospital in Newport News, Virginia.1 Specifically, they allege that Negro physicians are denied admission to the medical staff because of their race, and that Negro patients are assigned to hospital rooms on a segregated basis.

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