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UNITED STATES v. MANNING

Civ. A. No. 8257.

206 F.Supp. 623 (1962)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Cecil MANNING, as Registrar of Voters of East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, and The State of Louisiana, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Monroe Division.

July 24, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

St. John Barrett, Frank Dunbaugh, Gerald P. Choppin, Washington, D. C., Edward L. Shaheen, U. S. Atty., for Western District of Louisiana, for plaintiff.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., State of Louisiana, Carroll Buck, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Albin P. Lassiter, Dist. Atty., Fourth Judicial District, Thompson L. Clarke, Dist. Atty., Sixth Judicial District, Harry J. Kron, Jr., William P. Schuler, Asst. Attys. Gen., Thomas W. McFerrin, Special Counsel, Cecil Manning as Registrar of Voters of East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, and the State of Louisiana, for defendants.

Before WISDOM, Circuit Judge, and CHRISTENBERRY and HUNTER, District Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

The United States instituted suit in April 1961 alleging that the Registrar of Voters for East Carroll Parish discriminated against Negro citizens who applied to register to vote in the parish. May 30, 1962, the Court entered judgment in favor of the plaintiff. The Court found that Negro citizens in East Carroll Parish had been deprived of rights secured by the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1971(a), in accordance with "a pattern and practice...

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