John Howard Ferguson

…new judge in Desdunes’s case, John Ferguson, dismissed the case.

…in criminal court before Judge John Howard Ferguson to answer charges of violating the Separate Car Act.

In district court under Judge John Howard Ferguson (from which the case gets its name), Plessy and his legal team argued that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth amendments. They lost. A state court concurred with the district court. Plessy next appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.…

…in criminal court before Judge John Howard Ferguson to answer charges of violating the Separate Car Act.