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UNITED STATES v. JORDAN

Civ. A. No. 15792.

302 F.Supp. 370 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America, by Nicholas deB. KATZENBACH, Attorney General of the United States v. Houston JORDAN; Waver Jordan; T. B. Sumrall; John Warren Sumrall; Gilbert W. Landry; and Landry's Private Dining Club, Inc.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

July 30, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Bingler, Jr., Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for United States.

Henry N. Richardson, Bogalusa, La., for Gilbert W. Landry and Landry's Private Dining Club, Inc.

HEEBE, District Judge:

Does the mere conversion of a public restaurant into a "private club", which, in effect, is open to the white public, constitute a "pattern or practice of resistance to the full enjoyment of any of the rights secured" by Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 warranting action by the Attorney General under § 206(a) of that Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000a-5(a)? This is the most substantial question...

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