Legal Opinion
Rackley v. Board of Trustees of the Orangeburg Regional Hospital
District Court, E.D. South Carolina
Decided February 17, 1965No. Civ. A. AC-887PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERT W. HEMPHILL, Chief Judge.
Class action 1 by Negro plaintiffs to enjoin the Director and Board of Trustees of Orangeburg Regional Hospital “from continuing to enforce the policy, practice, custom, and usage of maintaining and operating segregated hospital facilities on the basis of race.”
Plaintiffs, who were not inpatients of the defendant hospital when the 1961 incidents occurred and which precipitated this controversy originally sought a preliminary and permanent injunction to enjoin alleged segregation procedures complained of which allegedly existed throughout the hospital. 2 The…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Burton v. Wilmington Parking AuthoritySupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Douglas v. City of JeannetteSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Goss v. Board of Ed. of KnoxvilleSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial HospitalCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Fred MOSS, Jr., Appellant, v. the LANE COMPANY, INCORPORATED, AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1973
- Pressley v. Wayne County SheriffMichigan Court of Appeals · 1971
- Rackley v. SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 5, ORANGEBURG COUNTY, SCDistrict Court, D. South Carolina · 1966
- Coleman v. AycockDistrict Court, N.D. Mississippi · 1969
- Ness v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc.District Court, D. South Carolina · 1987
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