Opinion

Sandra Adickes v. S. H. Kress and Company

  • 409 F.2d 121
Court
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Filed
May 5, 1969
Status
Published
Author
Waterman
On the bench
Waterman, Moore, Hays
Cited by
13 cases
Authority
More cited than 24.8%

Reversed on other grounds by Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co., 398 U.S. 144 (1970)

The opinion

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge

(dissenting) :

I dissent and would remand for further proceedings below. See Achtenberg, Adickes et al. v. State of Mississippi, 393 F.2d 468 (5 Cir. 1968).

Miss Adickes was engaged in “protected activity”; Section 2046.5 of the Mississippi Code encouraged the defendant’s employees to make the invidious discrimination; and her arrest upon her immediate exit from the store on the unsupportable trumped-up charge of vagrancy was a flagrant misuse of the State’s criminal process in order to perpetuate by subterfuge Mississippi’s well-known practice of preventing Caucasians and Afro-Americans from grouping themselves together in company in places of public resort.

I reserve the right to file an enlarged opinion at a later date.

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