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BROOKS v. BRILEY

Civ. No. 4747.

274 F.Supp. 538 (1967)

Frederick BROOKS et al., Plaintiffs, v. Beverly BRILEY, Mayor, etc., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

October 9, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. T. Creswell, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., Percy L. Julian, Jr., Madison, Wis., Howard Moore, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., Michael Standard, William Kunstler and Arthur Kinoy, New York City, Dennis J. Roberts and Harriet Van Tassel, Newark, N. J., and C. B. King, Albany, Ga., for plaintiffs.

Edwin F. Hunt, of Boult, Hunt, Cummings & Conners, Cecil D. Branstetter, James F. Neal, of Cornelius, Collins, Neal & Higgins, William J. Harbison, of Trabue, Minick, Sturdivant & Harbison, J. O. Bass, Sr., and J. Bradbury Reed, of Bass, Berry & Sims, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants.

Before PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge, and MILLER and GRAY, District Judges.

WILLIAM E. MILLER, District Judge.

In this action we are requested to strike down and to enjoin the enforcement of numerous state criminal laws and municipal ordinances for alleged vagueness and overbreadth and for invalidity as applied to plaintiffs and others similarly situated. Giving rise to the litigation were the North Nashville riots which occurred on April 8, 9 and 10, 1967, an outbreak of violence and lawlessness which led to police intervention and subsequent...

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