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HADNOTT v. AMOS

Civ. A. No. 2757-N.

325 F.Supp. 777 (1971)

Sallie M. HADNOTT et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, Amicus Curiae and Party, v. Mabel S. AMOS, as Secretary of State of Alabama, et al., Defendants.

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

January 7, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Perry Hubbard, Hubbard & Waldrop, Tuscaloosa, Ala., for Probate Judge Herndon.

Charles Morgan, Jr., Reber F. Boult, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., George W. Dean, Destin, Fla., for Sally Hadnott and others.

Ira DeMent, U. S. Atty., F. E. Leonard, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Montgomery, Ala., Dorothy E. Mead, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

L. Drew Redden, Rogers, Howard, Redden & Mills, Birmingham, Ala., for Mabel S. Amos.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen. of Alabama, John G. Bookout, Deputy Atty. Gen., Gordon Madison, Leslie Hall, William N. McQueen, Asst. Attys. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for the Governor, the Atty. Gen., the Probate Judges, the Greene County Bd. of Registrars and Mrs. Amos.

Ralph Banks, Eutaw, Ala., for Seale, Henderson, Carpenter, Drummond, Gould and Owens.

R. Clifford Fulford, Levine, Fulford & Pope, Birmingham, Ala., for Circuit Judge Hildreth.

Before GODBOLD, Circuit Judge, and JOHNSON and PITTMAN, District Judges.

CIVIL CONTEMPT

PER CURIAM.

This proceeding was initiated in September, 1968, by the plaintiffs, Negro and white electors of the National Democratic Party of Alabama, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, to require the defendants, including James Dennis Herndon in his capacity as Probate Judge of Greene County, Alabama, to place upon the official ballots for the 1968 general election the names of National Democratic Party of Alabama candidates...

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