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LIVERIGHT v. JOINT COMMITTEE OF GEN. ASSEM. OF STATE OF TENN.

Civ. A. No. 4796.

279 F.Supp. 205 (1968)

Dr. A. A. LIVERIGHT et al., Plaintiffs, v. JOINT COMMITTEE OF the GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF the STATE OF TENNESSEE, etc., et al., Defendants.

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

January 11, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Morgan, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., I. T. Creswell, Jr., and Reber F. Boult, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee, George E. Barrett and Whitworth Stokes, Jr., Cecil D. Branstetter, Leroy J. Ellis, III, Jordan Stokes, and Charles Galbreath, Nashville, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

Dick L. Lansden and Robert McCullough, Nashville, Tenn., Thomas Fox, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Tennessee, Nashville, Tenn., and E. Patten Webb, Memphis, Tenn., for defendants.

OPINION

WILLIAM E. MILLER, Chief Judge.

This is an action to enjoin a Joint Committee of the Tennessee General Assembly from proceeding into an investigation of allegedly subversive activities on the part of the Highlander Educational and Research Center Inc. (hereinafter referred to as the "Highlander Center.")

Although the Court, as indicated in this opinion is compelled to conclude that the plaintiffs are entitled to injunctive relief on the basis...

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