Davis v. Secretary, Department of Health, Education & Welfare

Plaintiff sought to restrain defendants from continuing with certain administrative proceedings which had been commenced upon her allegations that she had been discriminated against, on racial grounds, in the course of her employment by the Social Security Administration of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Included among the allegations to support her claim for injunctive relief, plaintiff alleged that defendants had excluded Negroes from the panel from which the hearing officer was selected, that the hearing officer designated lacked the qualifications required…