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Thomas v. Mississippi

U.S.
Apr 26, 1965
380 U.S. 524 (1965)
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In Thomas various "Freedom Riders" were arrested and convicted under circumstances substantially similar to the facts of these cases.

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Opinion

ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI.

No. 181.

Decided April 26, 1965.

Certiorari granted and judgments reversed.

Reported below: See 248 Miss. 850, 160 So.2d 657, 161 So.2d 159, 521.

Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., Jack Young, R. Jess Brown, Carl Rachlin and Michael Meltsner for petitioners.

Joe T. Patterson, Attorney General of Mississippi, and John A. Travis and Robert G. Nichols, Jr., Special Assistant Attorneys General, for respondent.

PER CURIAM.

The petition for writ of certiorari is granted and the judgments are reversed. Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U.S. 454, Abernathy v. Alabama, ante, p. 447.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.

Summaries of

Thomas v. Mississippi

U.S.
Apr 26, 1965
380 U.S. 524 (1965)

In Thomas various "Freedom Riders" were arrested and convicted under circumstances substantially similar to the facts of these cases.

Summary of this case from Pierson v. Ray

In Thomas v. Mississippi, 380 U.S. 524, 85 S.Ct. 1327, 14 L.Ed.2d 265 (1965), the Supreme Court reversed a conviction under § 2087.5 of the Mississippi Code (the predecessor to § 97-35-3) for disorderly conduct because the statute had been applied so as to criminalize the refusal of a black person to leave a bus station when so requested by a policeman because of the hostility of white people in the terminal.

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Thomas v. Mississippi

Case Details

Full title:THOMAS ET AL. v . MISSISSIPPI

Court:U.S.

Date published: Apr 26, 1965

Citations

380 U.S. 524 (1965)

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