LEWIS v. CAMPBELL

Civ. A. No. 697.

292 F.Supp. 961 (1968)

Tom LEWIS, Complainant, v. Phil CAMPBELL, Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Georgia, and Georgia Agricultural Commodity Commission for Tobacco, comprised of Herman C. Odom, as Chairman, and Willie McKinnon, C. C. Ramsey, T. W. Booth and Britt Dorsey, as Members, and Phil Campbell, Commissioner of Agriculture, Ernest B. Davis, as State Auditor of Georgia; Arthur K. Bolton, as Attorney General of Georgia, and William L. Lanier, as President of Georgia Farm Bureau Federation, as Ex Officio Members, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Georgia, Athens Division.

November 5, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Neville, Statesboro, Ga., for plaintiff.

Homer S. Durden, Jr., Swainsboro, Ga., A. Joseph Nardone, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga. and Denmark Groover, Jr., Macon, Ga., for defendants.


ELLIOTT, District Judge:

By this action the Complainant sought a temporary restraining order and a permanent injunction. The judge with whom the complaint was filed declined to grant the temporary restraining order and, pursuant to Complainant's request, a three-judge District Court was constituted under 28 U.S.C. § 2281, which provides for such a tribunal whenever the enforcement of a state statute is sought to be...

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