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HAMM v. VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS

Civ. A. No. 3127.

230 F.Supp. 156 (1964)

E. Leslie HAMM et al., Plaintiffs, v. VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS et al., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Alexandria Division.

Decided April 28, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allison W. Brown, Jr., Washington, D. C., and Otto L. Tucker, Alexandria, Va., for plaintiffs.

Robert Y. Button, Atty. Gen., R. D. McIlwaine, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., William J. Hassan, Commonwealth's Atty., Arlington, Va., Ralph G. Louk, Commonwealth's Atty., Fairfax, Va., Earl F. Wagner, Commonwealth's Atty., Alexandria, Va., for defendants.

Before ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge, and LEWIS and BUTZNER, District Judges.

ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

Certain Virginia statutes and a section of her constitution are here attacked by plaintiff Negro and white citizens of the State as violative of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments of the Federal constitution. The laws assailed deal with records relating to: (1) voting, (2) property tax assessments, and (3) divorce. Plaintiffs allege that provisions in the first category "require lists of persons who are qualified voters in Virginia...

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