Opinion

Meredith v. Fair

  • 298 F.2d 696
Court
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Filed
Jan 12, 1962
Status
Published
On the bench
Rives, Tuttle, Wisdom
Cited by
43 cases

"This case was tried below and argued here in the eerie atmosphere of never-never land. Counsel for appellees argue that there is no state policy of maintaining segregated institutions of higher learning and that the court can take no judicial notice of this plain fact known to everyone,”

How later courts described this case

  • "This case was tried below and argued here in the eerie atmosphere of never-never land. Counsel for appellees argue that there is no state policy of maintaining segregated institutions of higher learning and that the court can take no judicial notice of this plain fact known to everyone,”
  • negro college applicant not to be required to submit certificate of alumni support where lack of negro alumni and opportunity for contact with white alumni render this requirement particularly burdensome
  • challenge to racial segregation at public university
  • state maintains a policy of segregation

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

On Petition For Rehearing

PER CURIAM.

The petition for rehearing of the appeal from the judgment denying a preliminary injunction is herewith dismissed as moot.

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