Briggs (Supreme Court) Defense Attorneys

as extracted from brown, 347 US 483 (May 17, 1954)

John W. Davis argued the cause for appellees in No. 2 [Briggs] on the original argument and for appellees in Nos. 2 and 4 [Davis] on the reargument. With him on the briefs in No. 2 [Briggs] were T. C. Callison, Attorney General of South Carolina, Robert McC. Figg, Jr., S. E. Rogers, William R. Meagher and Taggart Whipple.

J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Attorney General of Virginia, and T. Justin Moore argued the cause for appellees in No. 4 on the original argument and for appellees in Nos. 2 [Briggs] and 4 on the reargument.

By special leave of Court, Assistant Attorney General Rankin argued the cause for the United States on the reargument, as amicus curiae, urging reversal in Nos. 1, 2 [Briggs] and 4 and affirmance in No. 10 [Gebhart]. With him on the brief were Attorney General Brownell, Philip Elman, Leon Ulman, William J. Lamont and M. Magdelena Schoch. James P. McGranery, then Attorney General, and Philip Elman filed a brief for the United States on the original argument, as amicus curiae, urging reversal in Nos. 1, 2 [Briggs] and 4 and affirmance in No. 10.