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BURTON v. HOBBIE

Civ. A. No. 81-617-N.

543 F.Supp. 235 (1982)

William L. BURTON, Percy D. Bell, Abraham Lincoln Woods, Jr., Bobby Jo Johnson, Andrew Hayden, Felix Nixon, Euralee A. Haynes, individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Walker HOBBIE, Jr., in his official capacity as Judge of Probate of Montgomery County and as a representative of the class of all judges of probate in the State of Alabama; Don Siegelman, in his official capacity as Secretary of State of Alabama, Defendants, Charles A. Graddick, Attorney General for the State of Alabama, Defendant-Intervenor.

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

June 21, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blacksher, Menefee & Stein, James U. Blacksher and Larry T. Menefee, Mobile, Ala., Gray, Seay & Lanford, Solomon Seay, Montgomery, Ala., Reeves & Still, W. Edward Still, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., Linda C. Breland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for defendant Siegelman.

Smith, Bowman, Thagard, Crook & Culpepper, T. W. Thagard, Jr. and David R. Boyd, Montgomery, Ala., Lee L. Hale, Mobile, Ala., for defendants Hobbie and Graddick.

Before JOHNSON, Circuit Judge, and HOBBS and THOMPSON, District Judges.

HOBBS, District Judge:

Plaintiffs brought this class action on behalf of themselves and all other black citizens of the State of Alabama on November 5, 1981, contending that the legislation directed toward reapportionment of the Alabama Legislature (Act No. 81-1049) violated the rights of black citizens under the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States and 42 U.S.C. §...

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