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UNITED STATES v. KNIPPERS AND DAY REAL ESTATE, INC.

Civ. A. No. 68-123.

298 F.Supp. 551 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America, by Ramsey CLARK, Attorney General v. KNIPPERS AND DAY REAL ESTATE, INC.; Town and Country Homes, Inc.; K & D Enterprises, Inc.; Myer-Yarbrough Realty, Inc.; Myer Development Corporation; Gully Agency, Inc.; I. W. Knippers; William E. Day, Jr.; C. Stevens Myer; Durward Gully; Kenneth C. Owens.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

April 24, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ramsey Clark, Atty. Gen., Stephen J. Pollak, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Louis C. LaCour, U. S. Atty., Eastern Dist. of La., Hugh W. Fleischer, Trial Atty., Dept. of Justice, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

Bobby L. Forrest, Forrest, Kiefer & Hubbs, Baton Rouge, La., for I. W. Knippers, William E. Day, Jr., individually and as officers of and herein representing Town & Country Homes, Inc., K & D Enterprises, Inc., and Knippers and Day Real Estate, Inc.

John V. Parker and Ben R. Downing, Jr., Sanders, Miller, Downing & Kean, Baton Rouge, La., for Durward Gully, Kenneth C. Owens, and Gully Agency, Inc.

Chapman L. Sanford and Roy F. Cangelosi, Jr., Kizer, Heaton & Cangelosi, Baton Rouge, La., for Myer-Yarbrough Realty, Inc., Myer Development Corp., and C. Stevens Myer.

WEST, Chief Judge:

This is a suit brought by the Attorney General of the United States seeking to enjoin certain real estate firms and the individual members thereof from engaging in an alleged pattern or practice of resistance to the full enjoyment of rights granted by Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 81), Public Law 90-284, 42 U.S.C.A. § 3601 et seq., popularly known as the Fair Housing or Open Housing Act of 1968. The Attorney General alleges...

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