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BAKER v. CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG

No. 23720.

400 F.2d 294 (1968)

Adam BAKER et al., Appellants, v. CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 1, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leroy D. Clark, New York City, James B. Sanderlin, St. Petersburg, Fla., Gilbert S. Edelson, New York City, for appellants.

Harry I. Young, St. Petersburg, Fla., for appellees.

Before TUTTLE and WISDOM, Circuit Judges, and HEEBE, District Judge.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

We are asked to apply the law of equal protection to a factual situation not previously presented to the courts. Twelve Negro officers on the police force of St. Petersburg, Florida, attack the validity of certain practices of the city's police department which are allegedly based on classification by race. The district court held that insofar as the racial classifications existed in the operations of the department, they were the product of...

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