User:Pdebee/Richard Sobol cases

School desegregation cases
In Moses v. Washington Parish School Board, the federal district court required establishment of biracial attendance zones in lieu of the freedom of choice plan previously relied upon as the means of disestablishing a segregated school system.

In Carter v. West Feliciana School Board, the Supreme Court of the United States summarily reversed an en banc decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which would have afforded Southern school districts an additional year in which to implement plans for the disestablishment of segregated school systems. Sobol originally filed this case shortly after arriving as an LCDC summer volunteer in 1965.

Employment discrimination cases
Hicks v. Crown Zellerbach Corp., one of the first cases tried under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act in July 1967 and which addressed important procedural and substantive questions under the Act, 49 F.R.D. 184 (E.D. La. 1967, 1968); 310 F. Supp. 536 (E.D. La. 1970); 319 F. Supp. 314 (E.D. La. 1970); 321 F. Supp. 1241 (E.D. La. 1971).

Oatis v. Crown Zellerbach Corp., 398 F.2d 496 (5th Cir. 1968).

United States and Local 189a v. Local 189, 282 F. Supp. 39 (E.D. La. 1968); 301 F. Supp. 906 (E.D. La. 1969), aff’d; 416 F.2d 980 (5th Cir. 1969), cert. denied; 397 U.S. 919 (1970), upholding remedial seniority rights for formerly segregated black employees.

Defense of civil rights workers
Whatley v. City of Vidalia, 399 F.2d 521 (5th Cir. 1968).

Wyche v. Louisiana, 394 F.2d 927 (5th Cir. 1967).

Wyche v. Hester, 431 F.2d 791 (5th Cir. 1970).

State v. Lewis, 250 La. 876, 199 So. 2d 907 (1967).

State v. Skiffer, 253 La. 405, 218 So. 2d 313 (1969).

Zanders v. Louisiana State Board of Education, 281 F. Supp. 747 (W.D. La. 1968).

Scott v. Davis, 404 F.2d 1373 (5th Cir. 1968).

Voting Rights cases
Wyche v. Post, 297 F. Supp. 46 (W.D. La. 1969).

Brown v. Post, 279 F. Supp. 60 (W.D. La. 1968).

Challenge under Title VI of the CRA of 1964
Challenge under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to Use of Federal Funds to Construct Housing in Segregated Neighborhoods in Bogalusa.

Hicks v. Weaver, 302 F. Supp. 619 (E.D. La. 1969).

Challenge to Exclusion of Agricultural Workers from the NLRA
Challenge to Constitutionality of Exclusion of Agricultural Workers from the National Labor Relations Act.

Local 300 v. McCulloch, 428 F.2d 396 (5th Cir. 1970).

Summary of Richard Sobol's LCDC cases
In the two-and-a-half years he was employed by LCDC, Sobol handled the cases listed below.