Odom v. Ferguson

How later courts describe this case

• affirming dismissal of complaint for refusal to amend despite specific instructions to do so and for failure to appear at the pre-trial conference
• dismissal justified when counsel failed to amend complaint over nine-month period and failed to appear at pretrial hearing
• in order for the complainant to have his or her day in court, the Commission need not actually engage in conciliation
• “[o]nce a right and a violation have been shown, the scope of a district court’s equitable powers to remedy past wrongs is broad, for breadth and flexibility are inherent in equitable remedies”
• action by rail carriers to enjoin selective striking by union
• judicial relief available in “situation bordering on patent official bad faith”
• such legal premises are "reviewable fully and de novo"
• private injury does not necessarily accompany public injury