Legal Opinion
Maynard v. Foster and Lebaron A. Foster v. Mobile County Hospital Board
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 24, 1968No. 24739_1PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:
Appellants, two Negro physicians, residing in the City of Mobile, Alabama, instituted this suit as a class action against defendants Mobile County General Hospital Board, its officers and members, to enjoin the denial of ad mission to the medical staff of the Mobile County General Hospital, based on allegations of racial discrimination. Jurisdiction was predicated on 28 U.S.C. § 1343 (4) and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1983, also the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and the Civil Rights Act of…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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3Cited by44 opinions
- Doctor Robert Sosa v. Board of Managers of the Val Verde Memorial HospitalCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Philip S. Woodbury v. Neil McKinnon ChairmanCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Dobbins v. Local 212, International Brotherhood of Electrical WorkersDistrict Court, S.D. Ohio · 1968
- Silver v. Castle Memorial HospitalHawaii Supreme Court · 1972
- Cameron v. New Hanover Memorial Hospital, Inc.Court of Appeals of North Carolina · 1982
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