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explaining that the refusal clause in § 1443 "was intended to enable state officers who refused to enforce discriminatory state laws in conflict with Section 1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866" to remove their prosecutions to federal court
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No. 959.
Decided June 20, 1966.
Certiorari granted; 357 F.2d 756, affirmed.
Arthur Kinoy, William M. Kunstler and J. L. Williams for petitioners.
Rutledge C. Clement for respondent.
The motions to dispense with printing the petition for a writ of certiorari and the respondent's brief are granted. The petition for writ of certiorari is also granted and the judgments are affirmed. City of Greenwood v. Peacock, ante, p. 808.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN and MR. JUSTICE FORTAS would reverse the judgments for the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion of MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS in City of Greenwood v. Peacock, ante, at 835.