· 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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