ASHLEY v. CITY OF JACKSON

No. 82-1390.

464 U.S. 900 (1983)

ASHLEY ET AL. v. CITY OF JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

October 11, 1983.


Certiorari denied.

JUSTICE REHNQUIST, with whom JUSTICE BRENNAN joins, dissenting.

This case presents the question whether a victim of alleged discrimination may have his right to sue totally extinguished by a prior suit to which he was not a party and in which a consent decree was entered before his cause of action even accrued. Because I think the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a district court cannot entertain a suit challenging...

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