Donna Robertson v. Patrolman F. Johnston

SPEARS, District Judge:

This is a Civil Rights case. The appellant is a white woman, and appellees are two white police officers for the City of New Orleans; the New Orleans Police Department; and the City of New Orleans. On the evening of June 29, 1965, appellant was arrested for vagrancy while sitting in a nightclub or cabaret called Harry’s Steak House. She filed suit under Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 1 in the district court, alleging that she had been arrested in order to enforce a custom or usage of the City of New Orleans which forbids or discourages white women from…