Legal Opinion
Jones v. City of Hamtramck
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided January 7, 1954No. Civ. A. 12307PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THORNTON, District Judge.
The Court has before it a motion filed by the plaintiffs herein for summary judgment. The action was brought by the plaintiffs as a class action on behalf of themselves and on behalf of others similarly situated. Plaintiffs seek an injunction and declaratory judgment:
“ * * * for the purpose of determining a question in actual controversy between the parties, that is, whether the regulation, policy, custom, usage, conduct and practice of defendants in refusing to lease to plaintiffs and other eligible Negro applicants similarly situated solely because of their race and…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Plessy v. FergusonSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Vann v. Toledo Metropolitan Housing AuthorityDistrict Court, N.D. Ohio · 1953
3Cited by2 opinions
- Runge v. FlemingDistrict Court, N.D. Iowa · 1960
- E. F. Barnes, J. C. Carson, J. Jelks and J. Robertson v. City of Gadsden, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1959