Legal Opinion
Briggs v. Elliott
District Court, E.D. South Carolina
Decided June 23, 1951No. Civ. A. 2657PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit for a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief in which it is alleged that the schools and educational facilities provided for Negro children in School District No. 22 in Clarendon County, South Carolina, are inferior to those provided for white children in that district and that this amounts to a denial of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed them by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, and further that the segregation of Negro and white children in the public schools, required by Article 11, section 7 of the Constitution of…
2Cases cited44 opinions
- Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1911
- United States v. Carolene Products Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Plessy v. FergusonSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- United States v. Carolene Products Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1937
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3Cited by33 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Briggs v. ElliottDistrict Court, E.D. South Carolina · 1955
- Green v. Board of ElectionsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1967
- Pennsylvania v. Local Union 542, International Union of Operating EngineersDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1974
- Green v. Board Of Elections Of The City Of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1967
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