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JORDAN v. CITY OF GREENWOOD, MISS.

Civ. A. No. GC77-52-WK-P.

599 F.Supp. 397 (1984)

David JORDAN, James Moore, Robert Sims, and Sammie Lee Chestnut, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF GREENWOOD, MISSISSIPPI; Clay Ewing, Mayor, Sam Bass, Commissioner, and Charlie Wright, Commissioner, individually and in their official capacities as Members of the City Council of the City of Greenwood, City of Greenwood Municipal Democratic Executive Committee; G. Hite McLean, Chairman of the City Democratic Executive Committee; City of Greenwood Municipal Republican Executive Committee; Porter Peteet, Chairman of the City Republican Executive Committee; City of Greenwood Municipal Election Commission; Ms. A.J. Brewerton, Ms. A.C. Snellings, and Ms. Frances Tupper, Members of the City Election Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

July 25, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willie J. Perkins, North MS Rural Legal Services, Greenwood, Miss., for plaintiffs.

Steven H. Rosenbaum, Voting Rights Sec., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-intervenor.

Billy B. Bowman, Brewer, Deaton & Bowman, Greenwood, Miss., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

KEADY, District Judge.

This action on behalf of black residents of the City of Greenwood, Mississippi, challenging the city's at-large commission form of government is before the court on remand from the Court of Appeals vacating the prior judgment of the district court entered March 23, 1982, Jordan v. City of Greenwood, 534 F.Supp. 1351. The cause was remanded for further consideration...

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