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DOBSON v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE CITY

Civ. No. 71-772.

330 F.Supp. 1290 (1971)

Vernon N. DOBSON et al. v. The MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE CITY et al. and John C. Donohue, President, et al.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

August 23, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilbur D. Preston, Jr., Norwood B. Orrick, Larry S. Gibson and Robert Emmett Sharkey, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiffs.

George L. Russell, Jr., City Sol., Ambrose T. Hartman, Deputy City Sol., and Allan B. Blumberg and Carol S. Sugar, Asst. City Sols., Baltimore, Md., for the defendant Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

Francis B. Burch, Atty. Gen., and E. Stephen Derby, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md., for the defendant Board of Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City.

HARVEY, District Judge:

In this civil action, eight black residents of the City of Baltimore seek to enjoin the holding of certain impending elections for City Council, namely, a primary election scheduled for September 14, 1971 and a general election scheduled for November 2, 1971.1 In their complaint, plaintiffs assert the unconstitutionality of a recent redistricting Ordinance, No. 1023, of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, dated...

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