CARFAGNO v. HARRIS

Civ. No. LR 76 C 373.

470 F.Supp. 219 (1979)

James CARFAGNO, Jr., Alfred Thompson, Joel W. Price, Kacey Denoi, Cecelia S. Hitte, Owen F. Bailey, Judith Moran, and Charles Proctor, on behalf of themselves and on behalf of other individuals similarly situated who are interested in practicing law in Arkansas, Plaintiffs, v. Carlton HARRIS, in his capacity of Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, George Rose Smith, J. Fred Jones, Frank Holt, Elsijane T. Roy, John A. Fogleman, and Conley Byrd, in their capacities as Associate Justices of the Arkansas Supreme Court and the Arkansas Supreme Court, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Arkansas, W. D.

May 10, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Kaplan, Little Rock, Ark., for plaintiffs.

W. Russell Meeks, III, Deputy Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

VAN SICKLE, District Judge.

This is a civil action arising under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to protect rights given to the Plaintiffs by the first and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States. The Plaintiffs seek a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief. The facts involved in this case were stipulated and the case was submitted to the Court on cross motions for summary judgment.

In January of 1976, Plaintiff...

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