Holmes v. City of Atlanta

Holmes v. Atlanta
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 7, 1955
Full case name	Holmes, et al. v. City of Atlanta, et al.
Citations	350 U.S. 879 (more) 76 S. Ct. 141; 100 L. Ed. 776; 1955 U.S. LEXIS 176
Case history
Prior	Holmes et al. v. City of Atlanta, 223 F.2d 93 (5th Cir. 1955).
Holding
Held that the practice of the City of Atlanta of operating a golf course that was open to different races on different days was improper.
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Harold H. Burton · Tom C. Clark Sherman Minton · John M. Harlan II
Case opinion
Per curiam

Holmes v. Atlanta, 350 U.S. 879 (1955), was a per curiam order by the Supreme Court of the United States that summarily reversed an order by the Georgia Court of Appeals that permitted the city of Atlanta to allocate a municipal golf course to different races on different days. The case was remanded to the district court with directions to enter a decree in conformity with Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City v. Dawson.^[1]