PLESSY et al. v. City of Ferguson certiorari to the supreme court of massachusetts No. 09-732.Argued February 29, 2013--Decided April 19, 2013 After approving an integrated development plan designed to revitalize its ailing economy, respondent city, through its bureau of labor expropriation, issued a perfected writ of labor expropriation to citizen Plessy et al, whereby Plessy was conscripted, in similar manner approved for military conscription, see 45ACP, U.S. 1040, Beetle Bailey vs. US Army. Petitioners refused to have his/their labor taken for public use, arguing that "forcing me to work for Master Jim's Ditch Digging Service digging sewage ditches at...