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DORSEY v. STATE ATHLETIC COMMISSION

Civ. A. No. 5247.

168 F.Supp. 149 (1958)

Joseph DORSEY, Jr., Plaintiff, v. STATE ATHLETIC COMMISSION, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

November 28, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Berry, Albion R. Ricard, Jr., New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

W. P. Schuler, New Orleans, La., for defendants.

Before WISDOM, Circuit Judge, and CHRISTENBERRY and WRIGHT, District Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

Joseph Dorsey, Jr., is a Negro prizefighter. He brings this suit in his own behalf and in behalf of all other Negro professional prizefighters similarly situated. He asks for a declaratory judgment and an injunction to restrain the Louisiana State Athletic Commission from enforcing a regulation and a statute prohibiting athletic contests between Negroes and whites.

The State Athletic Commission is an agency of the State of Louisiana...

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