Memorandum re: List of Outstanding LDF Cases Before U.S. Supreme Court

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egal efense und 

NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. 

10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 6-8397 

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November 3, 1967 

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MEMORANDUM 

TO: RADIO AND TV NEWS DIRECTORS 

FROM: Jesse DeVore, Director of Public information 

: The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. 

October term, 
22 cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, 

the LDF, with the exception of the Justic 

more cases before the high court than any other agency in the 

country. Some of the standout cases are 

NAME OF CASES: Sibron v. New. vork; Peters v. New York; Terry v. Ohio 

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President 
Hon. Francis E. Rivers 

Director-Counsel 
Jack Greenberg 

Director, Public Relations 
Jesse DeVore, Jr. 
NIGHT NUMBER 212-749-8487 

(LDF) has 
1967. Thus, 

e Department, has 

listed. 

BACKGROUND : 

which involve "stop and frisk" laws and practice 

QUESTION PRESENTED: Can a policeman stop and fr 

pasis of his subjective suspicion that the citiz 

crime? 
: 

NAME OF CASE: Sims v- Georgia 

BACKGROUND: A young white woman, 

the road by a Negro in another car and forcibly 

woods and raped. Returning to his car, the Negr 

it started and left the scene on foot. 

Did the fact that a 31-year 
presence of 

render 
QUESTION PRESENTED: 

who was physically prutalized in the 

few hours before his alleged confession, 

untary under the U.S. Constitution? 

NAME OF CASE: Monfoe V- Board of Commissioners. Jackson, Tennessee 

BACKGROUND: 
system follows "a course which perpetuates segre 

whelming majority of Negro students while paying 

obligation to desegregate." 

QUESTION PRESENTED: Can the evasion of integrat: 

poards--the resistance pattern that has emerged 

“absolute defiance" --be halted? 

(During the 1966-67 school year, 

of the almost three million Negro pupils in the 

still attended schools which were over 95 

NAME OF CASE: Anderson and Hinton v. Georgia 

BACKGROUND : 

jury service in Crisp County, Georgia. 

QUESTION PRESENTED: Does the selection of juror 

property tax payers represent economic discrimination against Negroes 

and poor whites? 

(One-third of the county's population is Negro. 

that population is automatically excluded from 

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(more) 

The LDF filed a friend of the court brief in these cases 

driving home alone, 

LDF attorneys told the Court that the 

a full 12 years after Brown 

{1954 Supreme Court school integration ruling}, more than 90 per cen! 

per cent Negro. ) 

Case involves exclusion of Negroes and poor whites from 

jury rolls, in light 

of the state's admission that significant numbers are otherwise qualifie 

a 

Ss 

isk a citizen on the 

en has committed a 

was forced off 

taken into nearby 

© was unable to get 

-old illiterate Negro, 

police officers a 

that confession invol- 

Jackson school 

gation for the over- 
lip service to the 

ion by southern schoo? 

since the days of 

11 southern states 

s from a roster of 

And, 62 per cent of 

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NAME OF CASE: Biggers v. Tennessee 

BACKGROUND: Sixteen-year-old Archie Nathaniel Biggers of Nashville, 
Tennessee, was arrested and sllegedly identified by a woman as the 
man who attempted to rape her the night before. Later the same day, 
another woman identified Biggers as the man who raped her in a dark 
hallway seven months earlier--although she could not identify her 
assailant at that time. 

QUESTION PRESENTED: Did the insistence by the police that a 16-year- 
old boy speak words spoken by a rapist 7 months earlier violate the 
Constitution when the police failed to provide an attorney, or hold a 
line-up, or take steps to assure an objective, impartial identifica- 
tion of his voice? 

NAME OF CASE: Wallace v. United States and Lee 

BACKGROUND: A federal district court ordered integration of schools 
in 99 Alabama counties. Governor Lurleen Wallace and the State Board 
of Education appealed the judgment 

QUESTION PRESENTED: £s it proper for a federal court to order state- 
wide school integration based on one case? 

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