Legal Opinion
Rackley v. Board of Trustees of Orangeburg Regional Hospital
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 9, 1962No. 8731PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.
A preliminary injunction, under the civil rights statutes *, was denied the appellant Negro citizens, Jamelle and Gloria Rackley, in their suit to restrain permanently the Orangeburg Regional Hospital and its Director, appellees, from maintaining distinct facilities for white and colored in the Hospital. The principal question is whether they were entitled to an injunction pendente lite.
The hospital is a county institution, and the appellants residents, of Orange-burg, South Carolina. Use of a waiting room was the only service of the hospital in issue at the…
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