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HAMER v. CAMPBELL

No. 22552.

345 F.2d 787 (1965)

Mrs. Fannie Lou HAMER et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Cecil C. CAMPBELL, Circuit Clerk and Registrar of Sunflower County, Miss., et al., Defendants-Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 19, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morton Stavis, Newark, New Jersey, Bruce C. Waltzer, New Orleans, La., Martin R. Bradley, Jr., Buffalo, N. Y., for appellants.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, William Allain, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., Oscar B. Townsend, Forrest G. Cooper, Indianola, Miss., P. J. Townsend, Jr., Drew, Miss., Alfred A. Levingston, Cleveland, Miss., for respondents.

Before BROWN and GEWIN, Circuit Judges, and KILKENNY, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

In this appeal from the District Court's denial on May 4, 1965, of a preliminary injunction against the holding of the quadrennial municipal elections in Sunflower County, Mississippi, based upon the recent decree of the same Court,1 the Appellants seek an injunction pending appeal, the effect of which, if granted, would forbid the holding of primary elections in some of the municipalities...

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