Legal Opinion
Coleman v. Miller
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided March 31, 1995No. 1:94-cv-01673PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
ORINDA D. EVANS, District Judge.
This civil rights action brought under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 2000a, and 1971 is before the court on Plaintiffs motion for preliminary injunction. At issue is the constitutionality of the current state flag of Georgia, established by the Georgia General Assembly in 1956 pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 50-3-1. Plaintiff is an African-American citizen. He seeks an injunction ordering the immediate removal of the Georgia flag from all state office buildings. He claims that the legislation establishing the flag and the flag’s design are discriminatory and racist in nature.…
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