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WILLIAMS v. SHAFFER

No. 824.

385 U.S. 1037 (1967)

WILLIAMS ET AL. v. SHAFFER.

Supreme Court of United States.

January 23, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III, Charles Stephen Ralston and Howard Moore, Jr., for petitioners. Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General of Georgia, and Harold N. Hill, Jr., and Alfred L. Evans, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, for respondent.

Certiorari denied.

MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, with whom THE CHIEF JUSTICE concurs, dissenting.

This case involves an important question regarding the right of a poor tenant to remain in possession of his shelter and defend against eviction in a court of law. It is part of the larger problem regarding the inability of indigent and deprived persons to voice their complaints through the existing institutional framework, and vividly demonstrates the disparity between...

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