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CHESTER v. KINNAMON

Civ. No. 18869.

276 F.Supp. 717 (1967)

Lemuel CHESTER, Jr., Leon Lewis, James Lewis, Albert Young, Jr., James D. Fletcher, Mrs. Gladys Fletcher, Stuart Wechsler, Cambridge Black Action Federation, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Congress of Racial Equality v. Brice S. KINNAMON, Chief of Police of Cambridge, Maryland, William B. Yates, II, State's Attorney for Dorchester County, Maryland, Charles Dodson, Fire Chief of Cambridge, Maryland, Ira (Sarge) Johnson, Sr., Sheriff for Dorchester County, Maryland.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

November 14, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred E. Weisgal, Lawrence Kotin and Weisgal, Albert & Lasover, Baltimore, Md., William M. Kunstler and Arthur Kinoy, New York City, Morton Stavis, Dennis Roberts and Harriet Van Tassel, Newark, N. J., for plaintiffs.

Francis B. Burch, Atty. Gen., of Maryland, Robert F. Sweeney, Deputy Atty. Gen., Morton A. Sacks, Thomas A. Garland, Asst. Attys. Gen., for defendants.

FRANK A. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

The complaint alleges that six of the nine plaintiffs are residents of Cambridge, Maryland, and that two of those six are members of the Cambridge Black Action Federation suing on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated. A seventh plaintiff sues as a member of the Congress of Racial Equality for himself and others similarly situated. The eighth plaintiff is alleged to be an unincorporated association, the Cambridge Black...

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