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SPAULDING v. BLAIR

No. 12906.

403 F.2d 862 (1968)

Daniel W. SPAULDING, James T. Dorsey, Vivian L. Sanders, Reverend Vernon N. Dobson, Appellants, v. C. Stanley BLAIR, Secretary of State of the State of Maryland, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 29, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald M. Shapiro and Louis S. Sachs, Baltimore, Md. (Fred E. Weisgal, Baltimore, Md., on brief) for appellants.

Lewis A. Noonberg, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Maryland, (Francis B. Burch, Atty. Gen., of Maryland, on brief) for appellees.

Before SOBELOFF, BRYAN and WINTER, Circuit Judges.

SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:

A number of Negro citizens brought a class action for declaratory and injunctive relief against the Secretary of State of Maryland and various election officials. The plaintiffs' objective was to prevent the submission of the open-housing enactment, known as Chapter 385, passed by the General Assembly at its 1967 session, to referendum at the general election on November 5, 1968. The plaintiffs alleged...

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