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IN RE COLEMAN

Civ. A. Nos. 1117, 3288, 3308.

208 F.Supp. 199 (1962)

In re Preston P. COLEMAN, Circuit Clerk and Registrar of Lauderdale County, Mississippi. In re L. F. CAMPBELL, Circuit Clerk and Registrar of Madison County, Mississippi. In re H. T. ASHFORD, Jr., Circuit Clerk and Registrar of Hinds County, Mississippi.

United States District Court S. D. Mississippi.

September 8, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., Harrison J. Goldin, Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, D. C., for Robert F. Kennedy, U. S. Atty. Gen., appellant.

J. A. Covington, Lester Williamson, Dunn & Singley, Meridian, Miss., for Preston P. Coleman.

G. B. Herring, J. R. Fancher, Jr., Canton, Miss., for L. F. Campbell.

W. E. Gore, Jr., Robert G. Nichols, Jr., for H. T. Ashford, Jr.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss., for all respondents.

COX, Chief Judge.

These three separate applications were filed in this Court against these registrars under Title 3 of the 1960 Civil Rights Act of the United States for the inspection of their registration and voting records in their respective counties in Mississippi. The substantial identity of questions involved entailed a consolidation of these cases for trial.

The Attorney General of the United States handed these county registrars a demand in writing...

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