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MOODY v. GALLION

Civ. A. No. 860-S.

286 F.Supp. 653 (1968)

Earle C. MOODY, as Mayor of the City of Dothan, Alabama, and Parnell S. Lewis and James P. Hall, as members of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Dothan, Alabama, and Earle C. Moody, Parnell S. Lewis and James P. Hall, Individually, for themselves, jointly and severally, and for all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. MacDonald GALLION, Attorney General of the State of Alabama; Robert Vance, Chairman of the Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee; Alfred Goldthwaite, Chairman of the Alabama State Republican Executive Committee; Carl E. Sellers, Judge of Probate of Houston County, Alabama; A. B. Clark, Sheriff of Houston County, Alabama; William G. Hause, Chairman of the Houston County Democratic Executive Committee; Alfred J. Saliba, Chairman of the Houston County Republican Executive Committee; and Thomas Littlefield, Harley Halstead, W. H. Hicks, W. E. Yance, and J. B. Davis, as members of the Board of Revenue and Control of Houston County, Alabama, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Alabama, S. D.

July 1, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. R. Lewis, Dothan, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Gordon Madison, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala., for defendant Attorney General of Alabama.

Truman Hobbs, of Hobbs, Copeland, Franco, Riggs & Screws, Montgomery, Ala., and W. G. Hardwick and Jere C. Segrest, Dothan, Ala., for probate judge, sheriff and board of revenue and control members except J. B. Davis.

Sam C. Pointer, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., for Chairman of State Republican Executive Committee and Chairman of Houston County Republican Executive Committee.

ORDER

FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., Chief Judge.

This action was commenced by Earle C. Moody, as Mayor of the City of Dothan, Alabama, and others, against Richmond Flowers, the then Attorney General of the State of Alabama, and others, seeking to have the one-man, one-vote principle of Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 84 S.Ct. 1362, 12 L.Ed.2d 506 (1964), applied to the election of the members of the Board of Revenue and Control of...

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