Billups v. City of Charleston

DAVID C. NORTON, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

The J. Waties Waring Judicial Center in Charleston, South Carolina is on the National Register of Historic Buildings. There is a marker outside that proclaims it as the courthouse where Thurgood Marshall tried Briggs v. Elliott, one of the cases consolidated into the seminal U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education and heard by a three-judge panel including the courthouse's namesake J. Waties Waring. It sits at the "Four Corners of the Law," an intersection in downtown Charleston where the federal courthouse, the state courthouse, the…