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SULLIVAN v. LITTLE HUNTING PARK

No. 33.

396 U.S. 229 (1969)

90 S.Ct. 400

24 L.Ed.2d 386

SULLIVAN ET AL. v. LITTLE HUNTING PARK, INC., ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 15, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allison W. Brown, Jr., argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Peter Ames Eveleth, Robert M. Alexander, Jack Greenberg, and James M. Nabrit III.

John Charles Harris argued the cause and filed a brief for respondents.

Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed by Solicitor General Griswold, Assistant Attorney General Leonard, Louis F. Claiborne, Peter L. Strauss, and Joseph J. Connolly for the United States, and by Arnold Forster, Sol Rabkin, Melvin L. Wulf, Edwin J. Lukas, Samuel Rabinove, and Paul Hartman for the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith et al.

Opinion of the Court by MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, announced by MR. JUSTICE BLACK.

This case, which involves an alleged discrimination against a Negro family in the use of certain community facilities, has been here before. The Virginia trial court dismissed petitioners' complaints and the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia denied the appeals saying that they were not perfected "in the manner provided by law in that opposing...

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