Legal Opinion
Willis v. Walker
District Court, W.D. Kentucky
Decided November 30, 1955No. Civ. A. 545PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHACKELFORD MILLER, Jr., Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs, who are Negro school children, residing in Adair County, Kentucky, brought this action in the District Court for the Western District of Kentucky seeking interlocutory and permanent injunctions ordering the defendants, who are the Superintendent of Public Schools of Adair County, Kentucky, the Adair County Board of Education, and the individual members thereof, to immediately admit the plaintiffs and all other Negroes similarly situated to the existing public schools in Adair County without requiring them to attend any particular public…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- California Water Service Co. v. City of ReddingSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Ex Parte BransfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Ex Parte CollinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1928
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. PattersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Nazareth Gates, and United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee v. John Collier, Superintendent, Mississippi State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- Jackson v. RawdonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1956
- Tunheim v. BowmanDistrict Court, D. Nevada · 1973
- Jackson v. RawdonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1956
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