Legal Opinion
Adkins v. School Board of the City of Newport News
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided January 11, 1957No. Civ. A. 489, 2214PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOFFMAN, District Judge.
In identical class actions certain Negro children and their parents, .or others who stand in loco parentis, have instituted these suits seeking the guidance and assistance of this Court to require the defendants 1 to cease and desist from the policy, practice, custom and usage of denying the infant plaintiffs, solely by reason of their race or color, admission to and education in any public school operated solely for children of the white race; and -requiring the infant plaintiffs, solely because of their race or color, to attend public schools operated exclusively for…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Korematsu v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Estate of Sanford v. CommissionerSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Lane v. WilsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
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3Cited by28 opinions
- National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. ButtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Green v. County School Board of New Kent CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Pauley v. KellyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1979
- Orleans Parish School Board v. Earl Benjamin BushCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1957
- Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham Board of EducationDistrict Court, N.D. Alabama · 1958
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