Court Opinion

ID: 9454434
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:46:26.684177+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:06.965580
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WATERMAN, Circuit Judge
(dissenting) :
I dissent and would remand for further proceedings below. See Achtenberg, Adickes et al. v. State of Mississippi, 393 F.2d 468 (5 Cir. 1968).
Miss Adickes was engaged in “protected activity”; Section 2046.5 of the Mississippi Code encouraged the defendant’s employees to make the invidious discrimination; and her arrest upon her immediate exit from the store on the unsupportable trumped-up charge of vagrancy was a flagrant misuse of the State’s criminal process in order to perpetuate by subterfuge Mississippi’s well-known practice of preventing Caucasians and Afro-Americans from grouping themselves together in company in places of public resort.
I reserve the right to file an enlarged opinion at a later date.