Legal Opinion
Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 1, 1963No. 8908PublishedCited by 153 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.
The threshold question in this appeal is whether the activities of the two defendants, Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital and Wesley Long Community Hospital, of Greensboro, North Carolina, which participated in the Hill-Burton program, are sufficiently imbued with *961“state action” to bring them within the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment prohibitions against racial discrimination. Beyond this initial inquiry lies the question of the constitutionality of a portion of the Hill-Burton Act (Hospital Survey and Construction ^mt), 60 Stat. 1041 (1946), as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. §…
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