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COPPOCK v. PATTERSON

Civ. A. No. 3794.

272 F.Supp. 16 (1967)

Robert COPPOCK et al., Plaintiffs, v. Joe T. PATTERSON et al., Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

August 16, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Jess Brown and Alvin J. Bronstein, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., Will S. Wells, Asst. Atty. Gen., E. W. Stennett, and Gene A. Wilkinson, Jackson, Miss., for defendants.

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

OPINION OF THE COURT

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a class action for injunction and declaratory relief, brought by the plaintiffs against State, County, and City officials. Plaintiffs seek to invalidate certain portions of Senate Bills 1512, 1513, and 1514 of the first Extraordinary Session of the Mississippi Legislature of 1965 as being in contravention of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. More specifically, it is...

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