Legal Opinion
Peay v. Cox, Registrar
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 21, 1951No. 13494PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.
The appeal is from the dismissal without prejudice of a suit by colored citizens of Mississippi in which they sought by a federal injunction to restrain the registrar of voters from discrimination because of color in refusing to register them as voters in violation of the law of Mississippi and contrary to the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
Peay and fourteen others allege that they are native born citizens of Mississippi and the United States residing. in Forrest County, qualified in all respects to register and vote in elections, federal,…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Lane v. WilsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- Federal Radio Commission v. General Electric Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1930
- Cook v. DavisCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1950
- Bates v. BatteCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1951
3Cited by26 opinions
- United States v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Mobil Oil Corporation v. Claude Kelley, Director of the Department of Conservation, Etc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- United States v. State of MississippiDistrict Court, S.D. Mississippi · 1964
- Armstrong v. Board Of Education Of BirminghamCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963
- Government & Civic Employees Organizing Committee v. WindsorDistrict Court, N.D. Alabama · 1953
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