Legal Opinion
Brown v. Board of Trustees of La Grange Independent School Dist.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 22, 1951No. 13317_1PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.
Julius Brown, a negro, as plaintiff, brought this suit as a claimant for the benefit of himself, his oldest daughter, Vivian, and all other persons of Negro blood and African descent. The original complaint, filed April IS, 1948, and the amendment thereto, filed November 22, 1949, sought a declaratory judgment, that, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, he and they had been subjected to racial discrimination and deprived of civil rights, and an injunction restraining the defendants from continuing such discrimination and deprivation.
Particularized, the claim was…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Bell v. HoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Massachusetts v. MellonSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- Dahnke-Walker Milling Co. v. BondurantSupreme Court of the United States · 1921
- Missouri Ex Rel. Gaines v. CanadaSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Sweatt v. PainterSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
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3Cited by48 opinions
- Coon v. LedbetterCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
- Father John J. O'Malley v. Joseph R. Brierley, Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at PittsburghCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1973
- Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson, Attorney General of the State of MississippiCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963
- Coon v. LedbetterCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
- Roberta M. Brittingham v. United States Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
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