Legal Opinion
Willie Peacock v. The City of Greenwood, Mississippi
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 22, 1965No. 21655PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRIFFIN B. BELL, Circuit Judge:
This cause arises under the removal statute, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1443. The appeal is from an order of the District Court sustaining the city’s motion to remand fourteen criminal cases to the city police court.
The petitions for removal alleged that appellants were arrested in Greenwood, Mississippi, and charged with-obstructing public streets in violation of § 2296.5, Mississippi Code of 1942. 1 Removal jurisdiction was predicated on both paragraphs (1) and (2) of § 1443 2 It was alleged that appellants were members of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, an…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Strauder v. West VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Virginia v. RivesSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Neal v. DelawareSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Gibson v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Hamm v. City of Rock HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by61 opinions
- City of Greenwood v. PeacockSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Rev. B. Elton Cox v. State of LouisianaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1965
- Bruce Baines v. City of Danville, Virginia, Hildreth G. McGhee v. City of Danville, VirginiaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1966
- State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company as Subrogee of Myron Pochynok and Myron Pochynok v. Thomas L. BaaschCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1981
- Bryan v. BrownSupreme Court of Alabama · 1976
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