Shipman v. DuPre

In 1949, appellants brought an action against respondents in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina seeking to have declared unconstitutional, and to enjoin the enforcement of, several South Carolina statutes governing commercial shrimp fishing. The particular statutes challenged were Section 3403 of the Code of 1932; Section 3379 of the Code of 1942 as amended by Act No. 323 of the 1949 Acts of the General Assembly, 46 St. at L. 609; Sections 3310 and 3328 of the Code of 1942; and Section 3408 of the Code of 1942 as amended by Act No. 832 of the 1948 Acts…