United States v. Raines

United States v. Raines
by the Supreme Court of the United States
Syllabus

→

related portals: Supreme Court of the United States.

United States v. Raines, 362 U.S. 17 (1960) was a United States Supreme Court decision relating to civil rights. The Court overturned the ruling of a U.S. District Court, which had held that a law authorizing the Federal Government to bring civil actions against State Officials for discriminating against black citizens was unconstitutional. Warning: template has been deprecated.— Excerpted from United States v. Raines on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Court Documents

Opinion of the Court

Concurring Opinion: Frankfurter

Wikipedia article

United States Supreme Court

362 U.S. 17

United States v. Raines

Argued: Jan. 12, 1960. --- Decided: Feb 29, 1960

[Syllabus from pages 17-18 intentionally omitted]

Attorney General William P. Rogers, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Mr. Charles J. Bloch, Macon, Ga., for the appellees.

Mr. Justice BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

NotesEdit

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).