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REID v. CITY OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA

Civ. A. No. 2958.

179 F.Supp. 768 (1960)

Harry A. REID et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA et al., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

Decided January 12, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard W. Holt, Norfolk, Va. (E. A. Dawley, Jr., Joseph A. Jordan, Jr., and Henry H. Jones, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for plaintiffs.

A. S. Harrison, Jr., Atty. Gen., of Virginia, and R. D. McIlwaine, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Virginia (Leonard H. Davis, City Atty., of City of Norfolk, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for defendants.

Before SOBELOFF and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges, and HOFFMAN, District Judge.

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

In this class action plaintiffs seek a declaration of their rights and injunctive relief to restrain the enforcement of § 18-327 and § 18-328 of the Code of Virginia, 1950. The language of the two statutes appears in the footnote1 but, for brevity, they may be denominated as mandatory segregated seating statutes.

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