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COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 1100-73.

386 F.Supp. 1319 (1975)

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, Crusade for Voters et al., Defendants-Intervenors.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

Judgment affirmed January 27, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen. of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond, Va., for plaintiff.

Sidney R. Bixler, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant.

Eric Schnapper, New York City, for defendants-intervenors.

Before TAMM, Circuit Judge, and GASCH and BRYANT, District Judges.

Judgment affirmed January 27, 1975. See 95 S.Ct. 820.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

PER CURIAM.

This is an action in which the Commonwealth of Virginia seeks a declaratory judgment exempting it from coverage by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1973. Section 4(a) of the Act forbids the application, in any jurisdiction covered by the section, of any literacy test or of any other "test or device" as defined by the Act.1

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