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· 3/26/1962

Turner v. City of Memphis

Citations

  • 369 U.S. 350
  • 82 S. Ct. 805
  • 7 L. Ed. 2d 762
  • 1962 U.S. LEXIS 1568

How courts have described this case

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  • holding abstention was inappropriate and the federal court was the proper forum for challenging a statute’s constitutionality
  • privately operated restaurant, a lessee of a municipal airport, conceded it was subj'ect to the strictures of the Fourteenth Amendment
  • reversing finding based on Federal Rule not asserted below

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Judges: Whittaker

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