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Case Name	Briggs v. Elliott	SD-SC-0001
Docket / Court	Civ. A. No. 2657 ( D.S.C. )
State/Territory	South Carolina
Case Type(s)	Education School Desegregation
Attorney Organization	NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Case Summary	Case summary not yet recorded compress summary

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Issues and Causes of Action

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Issues

Constitutional Clause

Equal Protection

Content of Injunction

Discrimination Prohibition

Defendant-type

Elementary/Secondary School

Discrimination-basis

Race discrimination

Plaintiff Type

Private Plaintiff

Race

Black

White

Type of Facility

Government-run

Causes of Action

42 U.S.C. § 1983

Case Details

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Defendant(s)	Chairman School Board
Plaintiff Description	Black students attending school in Clarendon District 22.
Indexed Lawyer Organizations	NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Class action status sought	Yes
Class action status granted	Yes
Filed Pro Se	No
Prevailing Party	Plaintiff
Public Int. Lawyer	Yes
Nature of Relief	Declaratory Judgment Injunction / Injunctive-like Settlement
Source of Relief	Litigation
Filed	12/22/1950
Case Closing Year	1960
Case Ongoing	No reason to think so

Related Cases

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Case Listing	SD-SC-0005 : Brunson v. Board of Trustees of Clarendon County (D.S.C.)

Additional Resources

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	Briggs v. Elliott South Carolina Encyclopedia Date: May 17, 2016 By: W. Marvin Dulaney ( University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies) [ Detail ] [ External Link ]
	Clarendon County in Black & White: A Visit to the Home of Briggs v. Elliott, 50 Years After Brown v. Board of Education Date: Spring 2004 By: David J. Garrow Citation: 7 Green Bag 2d 237 [ Detail ] [ PDF ] [ External Link ]

Documents

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Court	Docket(s)
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	General Documents
D.S.C. 06/23/1951	Opinion (98 F.Supp. 529) SD-SC-0001-0001.pdf \| WESTLAW\| LEXIS \| Detail Source: Westlaw
U.S. Supreme Court 01/28/1952	Opinion (342 U.S. 350) SD-SC-0001-0002.pdf \| WESTLAW\| LEXIS \| Detail Source: Westlaw
D.S.C. 03/13/1952	Opinion (103 F.Supp. 920) SD-SC-0001-0003.pdf \| WESTLAW\| LEXIS \| Detail Source: Westlaw
D.S.C. 07/15/1955	Opinion (132 F.Supp. 776) SD-SC-0001-0004.pdf \| WESTLAW\| LEXIS \| Detail Source: Westlaw

People

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Judges

Black, Hugo Lafayette (SCOTUS) show/hide docs

SD-SC-0001-0002

Burton, Harold Hitz (SCOTUS) show/hide docs

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Clark, Tom C. (SCOTUS) show/hide docs

SD-SC-0001-0002

Dobie, Armistead Mason (W.D. Va., Fourth Circuit) show/hide docs

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Douglas, William Orville (SCOTUS) show/hide docs

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Frankfurter, Felix (SCOTUS) show/hide docs

SD-SC-0001-0002

Jackson, Robert Houghwout (SCOTUS) show/hide docs

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Minton, Sherman (Seventh Circuit, SCOTUS) show/hide docs

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Parker, John Johnston (Fourth Circuit) show/hide docs

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Reed, Stanley Forman (SCOTUS) show/hide docs

SD-SC-0001-0002

Timmerman, George Bell Sr. (D.S.C., E.D. S.C., W.D. S.C.) show/hide docs

SD-SC-0001-0001 | SD-SC-0001-0003 | SD-SC-0001-0004

Waring, Julius Waties (D.S.C., E.D. S.C.) show/hide docs

SD-SC-0001-0001

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