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LONESOME v. MAXWELL

Civ. Nos. 5965, 5847, 6879.

123 F.Supp. 193 (1954)

LONESOME et al. v. MAXWELL et al. DAWSON et al. v. MAYOR & CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE et al. ISAACS et al. v. MAYOR & CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE et al.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

July 27, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Greenberg, New York City, Linwood G. Koger, Jr., Tucker R. Dearing, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiffs.

Edward D. E. Rollins, Atty. Gen., W. Giles Parker, Asst. Atty. Gen., for R. Brooke Maxwell and others.

Thomas N. Biddison, City Sol., Edwin Harlan, Deputy City Sol., Hugo A. Ricciuti, and Francis X. Gallagher, Asst. City Sols., Baltimore, Md., for Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and others.

David P. Gordon and A. Frederick Taylor, Baltimore, Md., for Sun & Sand, Inc.

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...

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