Legal Opinion
Spomer v. Littleton
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 15, 1974No. 72-955PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
This is a companion case to O’Shea v. Littleton, ante, p. 488, involving claims which the respondents, 17 black and two white residents of Cairo, Illinois, individually and as representatives of the class they purport to represent, set forth in that portion of their amended civil rights complaint which alleged wrongful conduct on the part of Peyton Berbling, individually and in his capacity as State’s Attorney for Alexander County, Illinois, the county in which the city of Cairo is located. As discussed in O’Shea, the complaint alleged a broad range of racially discriminatory patterns and…
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