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N.A.A.C.P. v. CITY OF STATESVILLE, N.C.

No. ST-C-84-149.

606 F.Supp. 569 (1985)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, INC., and its affiliate, the Statesville Branch; Charles Roman and Willie Beatty, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF STATESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA; City Council of Statesville, N.C.; its Successors and Agents; David L. Pressly, Mayor; Council Members Ralph W. Grose, Reese Childers, Frank Crowson, Max Kyles, John Gregory, and William T. Gill and their Succors and Agents; Iredell County Board of Elections, and its members James A. Dobson, Jr., Chairman; Charles C. Lynn and L. Hugh West, Jr. and their Successors and Agents; and Ruby Mosser, Supervisor of the Iredell County Board of Elections, and her Successors and Agents, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. North Carolina, Statesville Division.

April 15, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Angus B. Thompson, Jr., Lumberton, N.C., Romallus Murphy, Greensboro, N.C., Charles E. Carter, Assoc. General Counsel NAACP, Margaret Ford, Asst. General Counsel NAACP, NAACP Special Contributions Fund, Brooklyn, N.Y., for plaintiffs.

Jack R. Harris and Gary W. Thomas, Statesville, N.C., for defendants, City of Statesville, City Council of Statesville, David L. Pressly, Jr., Mayor, Council Members, Ralph W. Grose, Reece Childers, Frank Crowson, Max Kyles, John Gregory & William T. Gill.

Robert N. Randall, Mooresville, N.C., for defendants, Iredell Co. Bd. of Elections, & members James A. Dobson, Jr., Charles C. Lynn, L. Hugh West, Jr., their successors & agents, & Ruby Mosser, Supervisor of Iredell Co. Bd. of Elections, her successors & agents.

ORDER

McMILLAN, District Judge.

By consent order entered separately this day, the parties have resolved the major issues in this case. The current at-large method of electing members of the City Council for the City of Statesville has been declared to violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1973. The parties have achieved a significant settlement by creating a new city council composed of members representing a combination...

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