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FORD v. WHITE

Civ. A. No. 1230.

299 F.Supp. 772 (1969)

George FORD, Otis Parker, Jr., Theodore Bell, Sr., Willie Leon Duffin, Pauline Sias, Gracie Mae Green, and Gracie Lee Ford, individually and on behalf of those similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Frank WHITE, Dr. G. L. Johnson, Pauline Scott, Archie I. Irwin and W. Ed Holcomb, Jr., as members of the Board of Supervisors of Issaquena County, Mississippi; Honorable Ben Guider, as Circuit Court Judge of Issaquena County, Mississippi; Mrs. John Allen Darnell, as Sheriff of Issaquena County, Mississippi; John Allen Darnell, as Deputy Sheriff of Issaquena County; Mary T. Vandevender, as Clerk of the Circuit and Chancery Courts of Issaquena County, Mississippi, and Marshall L. Spiars, as Justice of the Peace of District Four of Issaquena County, Mississippi, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Mississippi, W. D.

April 7, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Fitzpatrick, L. A. Aschenbrenner, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs.

E. C. Clements, Rolling Fork, Miss., Will S. Wells, Donald Lacy, Jackson, Miss., for defendants.

NIXON, District Judge.

This is a class action seeking injunctive relief to preclude discrimination on the basis of race and sex in the jury selection system of Issaquena County, Mississippi. In its racial discrimination aspect, this action is similar to the ones with which this Court has recently been concerned in Raiford v. Dillon, 297 F.Supp. 1307 (S.D.Miss., March 10, 1969) and Love v. McGee, 297 F.Supp. 1314...

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