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LUDLEY v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF L. S. U.

Civ. A. Nos. 1833, 1836, 1837.

150 F.Supp. 900 (1957)

Arnease LUDLEY, Plaintiff, v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF L. S. U., etc., et al., Defendants. Jack BAILEY et al., Plaintiffs, v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants. Alma LARK et al., Plaintiffs, v. LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

April 15, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. P. Tureaud, New Orleans, La., Robert L. Carter, New York City, for plaintiffs.

L. W. Brooks, Jack Gremillion, Baton Rouge, La., George Ponder, New Orleans, La., for defendants.

Before CHRISTENBERRY, Chief Judge, and WRIGHT, District Judge.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

This litigation concerns another attempt by the Louisiana Legislature to preserve, by law, segregation in the educational institutions of the state. This attempt, while more subtle than its predecessor,1 nevertheless fails because the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution "nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination." Lane v. Wilson, 307 U.S. 268...

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