Legal Opinion
Parker v. County of Los Angeles
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 5, 1949No. 49PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Frankfurter
In No. 49, twenty-five classified civil servants of the County of Los Angeles brought an action in the Superior Court of that County, and in No. 50, suit was brought by one such employee. The respective plaintiffs sought relief against enforcement by the County and its officials of what is colloquially known as a loyalty test, and they did so for themselves and “in a representative capacity ... on behalf of 20,000 employees of Los Angeles County similarly situated.”
The plaintiffs, petitioners here, alleged that on August 26, 1947, the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles adopted…
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