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RACKLEY v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF ORANGEBURG REG. HOSP.

Civ. A. No. AC-887.

238 F.Supp. 512 (1965)

Janelle RACKLEY, a minor, by her mother and next friend, Gloria Rackley, and Gloria Rackley, Plaintiffs, v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF the ORANGEBURG REGIONAL HOSPITAL, a body public, and H. F. Mabry, Director of the Orangeburg Regional Hospital, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

February 17, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew J. Perry, Lincoln C. Jenkins, Jr., Columbia, S. C., Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabritt, III, Michael Meltsner, New York City for plaintiffs.

Charlton B. Horger, Orangeburg, S. C., and David W. Robinson, Columbia, S. C., for defendants.

ROBERT W. HEMPHILL, Chief Judge.

Class action1 by Negro plaintiffs to enjoin the Director and Board of Trustees of Orangeburg Regional Hospital "from continuing to enforce the policy, practice, custom, and usage of maintaining and operating segregated hospital facilities on the basis of race."

Plaintiffs, who were not inpatients of the defendant hospital when the 1961 incidents occurred and which precipitated this controversy originally...

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