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MacGUIRE v. AMOS

Civ. A. No. 3654-N.

343 F.Supp. 119 (1972)

Hugh C. MacGUIRE et al., Plaintiffs, v. Mabel S. AMOS, as Secretary of State of the State of Alabama, et al., Defendants.

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

May 13, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil Bradley, Atlanta, Ga., and Howard A. Mandell, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Gordon Madison, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Alabama, for defendants Amos and Baxley.

James J. Carter (Hill, Hill, Stovall, Carter & Franco, Montgomery, Ala.) appeared for Margaret Olive Jones.

R. Clifford Fulford, Birmingham, Ala. (Levine, Fulford & Pope, Birmingham, Ala.) for Robert S. Vance.

James H. Hancock (Balch, Bingham, Baker, Hawthorne & Williams, Birmingham, Ala.) represented J. Richard Bennett.

There were no appearances for the other defendants.

Before RIVES, Circuit Judge, and JOHNSON and VARNER, District Judges.

OPINION AND ORDER

PER CURIAM:

Plaintiffs have brought this suit seeking a judicial declaration that section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U. S.C. § 1973c, is applicable to the rules, promulgated by the Democratic and Republican parties, which governed the conduct of the May 2, 1972, elections of delegates to the parties' respective national conventions. A finding that section 5 is applicable has but one immediate consequence—the defendants...

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