Supreme Court of the United States, 1968

Fairley v. Patterson

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided June 10, 1968

392 U.S. 902; 88 S. Ct. 2052 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Denison Ray and Lawrence Aschenbren-ner for appellants in Nos. 1058 and 1059., Armand Derf-ner, Alvin J. Bronstein, and Richard B. Sobol for appellants in No. 1174., Joe T. Patterson, Attorney General of Mississippi, pro se, and William A. Attain and Will S. Wells, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellees in all three cases., Solicitor General Griswold, Assistant Attorney General Poliak, Louis F. Claiborne, Francis X. Bey-tagh, Jr., and Nathan Lewin filed a memorandum for the United States, as amicus curiae, by invitation of the Court.

Opinion of the Court

Appeals from D. C. S. D. Miss. Further consideration of question of jurisdiction in these cases postponed to hearing of the cases on the merits. Cases consolidated and a total of two hours allotted for oral argument.

Reported below: No. 1058, 282 F. Supp. 164; No. 1059, 281 F. Supp. 918.

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