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AUSBERRY v. CITY OF MONROE, LA.

Civ. A. No. 74424.

456 F.Supp. 460 (1978)

Benny AUSBERRY and Alfred Blakes, Individually and as representatives of black voters of Monroe, Louisiana v. The CITY OF MONROE, LOUISIANA, W. L. Howard, Individually and as Mayor thereof, Harland Prestridge, Individually and as member of Board of Commissioners thereof, Edwin Edwards, as Governor of State of Louisiana, and Paul Hardy, as Secretary of State of Louisiana.

United States District Court, W. D. Louisiana, Monroe Division.

September 7, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert P. McLeod, Monroe, La., for plaintiff.

Haynes L. Harkey, Jr., Monroe City Atty., Charles D. Patten, III, Asst. City Atty., Monroe, La., for defendant.

Charles H. Ryan, Monroe, La., for intervenors.

Thompson, Sparks, Cudd & Dean, Theus, Grisham, Davis & Leigh, Monroe, La., for amici curiae.

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

I.

FINDINGS OF FACT

DAWKINS, District Judge.

A. HISTORY OF CASE:

1. This suit was filed as a class action on behalf of all black citizens in the City of Monroe on April 29, 1974. As amended, it seeks to have the at-large election of all members of the City of Monroe Commission Council declared unconstitutional and violative of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment rights of the black...

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