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Witherspoon v. Illinois

390 U.S. 1001 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1968-04-01 Docket No. 1015; No. 1016 English

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p. 1001
No. 1015.
No. 1016.
Witherspoon v. Illinois et al. Bumper v. North Carolina.
Joel W. Westbrook for Turner; John P. Frank and John J. Flynn for Madden; Alex Elson, Willard J. Lassers and Marvin Braiterman for American Friends Service Committee et al.; and Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III, Michael Meltsner, Leroy D. Clark, Norman C. Amaker, Charles S. Ralston and Anthony G. Amsterdam for NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., et al., on the motions.

Sup. Ct. Ill.; and

Sup. Ct. N. C. Motions of Oscar Turner, Rebecca B. Madden, and American Friends Service Committee et al. for leave to file briefs, as amici curiae, in No. 1015, granted. Motion of NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., et al., for leave to file brief, as amici curiae, in both cases, granted.

[For earlier orders herein, see, e. g., ante, p. 986.]