Legal Opinion
Atlanta Bowling Center, Inc. And Elizabeth Lane Johnston v. Ivan Allen, Jr., Mayor of the City of Atlanta
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 13, 1968No. 24706_1PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:
Invoking Hornsby, 1 a case mistakenly thought by too many to be a pledge that if local authorities would not, a Federal Court would, grant a liquor license, Bowling Center, Inc., 2 in the name of the Constitution, sought unsuccessfully a mandatory Federal Court order compelling the Board 3 to issue a license to the Boom Boom Room.
Testing that, the sole issue presented here is whether Bowling Center was denied due process and equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment in the Board’s denial of a license to sell liquor by the drink in a club located in…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Haguer v. Committee for Industrial OrganizationSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Morey v. DoudSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Mrs. Lola Hornsby v. Ivan Allen, Mayor of the City of AtlantaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1964
- Victor Bussie, and His Wife, Gertrude Foley Bussie v. Mrs. Blanche Revere LongCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
- Alphonse Lewis, Jr. v. City of Grand RapidsCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1966
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Claudine Hall v. Sylvia GarsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- 2 Fair empl.prac.cas. 356, 2 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 10,166 Pete Gomez v. Florida State Employment ServiceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- Ben Herbert Phelper v. Bill Decker, Sheriff of Dallas County, TexasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
- Geraldine C. Medina v. Warren B. RudmanCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1976
- South Gwinnett Venture v. PruittCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
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