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ANDERSON v. NOSSER

No. 28971.

438 F.2d 183 (1971)

Katie Ruth ANDERSON et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. J. J. NOSSER et al., Defendants-Appellees. James BRADLEY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. J. J. NOSSER et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Granted and Rehearing Granted May 27, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence D. Ross, Jackson, Miss., Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Bernard Jolles, Franklin, Bennett, Des Brisay & Jolles, Portland, Or., Robert L. Beerman, Morrison, Paul & Bailey, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

A. F. Summer, Atty. Gen., William A. Allain, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., Edwin E. Benoist, Jr., Joseph S. Zuccaro, Natchez, Miss., Charles A. Marx, Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before TUTTLE, BELL, and GOLDBERG, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing Granted and Rehearing En Banc Granted May 27, 1971.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

Our locale is Natchez, Mississippi, where the mood in the fall of A.D. 1965 was anything but irenic. Our story concerns the arrest and subsequent detention of participants in racial protest demonstrations. According to the undisputed facts those arrested were subjected to sub-human treatment which beggars justification and taxes credulity. Finding ourselves unable to sustain...

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