page_title: David Rein
section_title: District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co.
hierarchical_section_title: David Rein / Career / Lost Laws and DC v. John R. Thompson Co. / District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co.
caption_attribution_description: English: Supreme Court building, Washington, DC, USA. Front facade.
context_page_description: David Rein was a 20th-Century American attorney who, with partner Joseph Forer, supported Progressive causes including discriminated communists and African-Americans. They were members of the National Lawyers Guild and its DC chapter. Rein represented "more than 100 people" alleged as communists before the House Un-American Activities Committee and the subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Administration
context_section_description: The case District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. reached the U.S. Supreme Court.  Forer and Rein argued the case.  On June 8, 1953, the court ruled that segregated eating places in Washington, DC, were unconstitutional.
  The Washington Post recounted in 1985, "Four days after the Supreme Court ruled, Mary Terrell and the three other original complainants went back to Thompson's. Joe Forer followed them in.  As he recalls the moment, the manager, himself, came over and personally, even obsequiously, carried Mary Terrell's tray to the table."
caption: Supreme Court of the United States.
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