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Alabama v. Texas et al.; and Rhode Island v. Louisiana et al.
346 U.S. 933·Supreme Court of the United States·1954
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Alabama v. Texas et al.; and Rhode Island v. Louisiana et al.
Si Garrett, Attorney General, and M. Roland Nachman, Jr. and Gordon Madison, Assistant Attorneys General, for the State of Alabama, complainant. William E. Powers, Attorney General, and Thomas G. Corcoran for the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, complainant. Attorney General Brownell, Acting Solicitor General Stern, Assistant Attorney General Rankin, Oscar H. Davis, John F. Davis and George S. Swarth for Humphrey et al.; John Ben Shepperd, Attorney General, Robert S. Trotti, First Assistant Attorney General, and Jesse P. Luton, Jr., William H. Holloway and Phillip Robinson, Assistant Attorneys General, for the State of Texas; Fred S. LeBlanc, Attorney General, John L. Madden, Assistant Attorney General, and Bailey Walsh, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Louisiana; Richard W. Ervin, Attorney General, Howard S. Bailey and Fred M. Burns, Assistant Attorneys General, and John D. Moriarty, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Florida; and Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, William V. O’Connor, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Everett W. Mattoon, Assistant Attorney General, and George G. Grover, Deputy Attorney General, for the State of California, defendants.
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These cases are set for hearing on the motions for leave to file the complaints.
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