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BUSKEY v. OLIVER

Civ. A. No. 81-557-N.

565 F.Supp. 1473 (1983)

John BUSKEY and Charles D. Langford, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated; and the Montgomery Improvement Association, Inc., Plaintiffs, Donald V. Watkins, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. Luther L. OLIVER, Lewis Golson, Alice Reynolds, John Starr, Jr., and William Nunn, individually and as members of the Montgomery, Alabama City Council; Emory Folmar, individually and as Mayor of the City of Montgomery, Alabama; and the City of Montgomery, Alabama, a municipal corporation, Defendants.

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

June 10, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Gray, Seay & Langford, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff.

Donald V. Watkins, Montgomery, Ala., pro se.

G. Dennis Nabors, Ball, Ball, Duke & Matthews, George B. Azar, Azar, Campbell & Azar, and H.A. Scott, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants.

OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

The plaintiffs in this cause of action seek declaratory and injunctive relief against the enforcement of Montgomery City Ordinance No. 47-81, which redraws the council districts for the city. The plaintiffs are John Buskey and Charles Langford, two black voters of the City of Montgomery, suing on behalf of themselves and all other black voters and potential black voters of the city;1

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