Legal Opinion
Lonesome v. Maxwell
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided July 27, 1954No. Civ. 5965, 5847, 6879PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMSEN, District Judge.
The motions for judgments on the pleadings in these three' cases raise a single legal question: Does segregation of the races by the State of Maryland and the City of Baltimore at public bathing beaches, bath houses and swimming pools deny plaintiffs any rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.
No. 5965
In this case, filed in August, 1952, plaintiffs, adult and minor Negroes, brought suit against the Commissioners of Forests and Parks of the State of Maryland, and the Superintendent of Sandy Point State Park and Beach, to restrain defendants .from operating the bath…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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- Plessy v. FergusonSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Korematsu v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Robert M. Dawson, Jr. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City, James C. Anderson, President, Milton Lonesome v. R. Brooke Maxwell, Chairman, Bernard I. Gonder, H. Lee Hoffman, Sr., J. Miles Lankford, J. Wilson Lord, Constituting the Commissioners of Forests and Parks of MarylandCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1955
- Fayson v. BeardDistrict Court, E.D. Texas · 1955
- Shuttlesworth v. GaylordDistrict Court, N.D. Alabama · 1961
- Dawson v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore CityCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1955
- Flemming v. South Carolina Electric & Gas CompanyDistrict Court, E.D. South Carolina · 1955