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UNITED STATES v. UNDERWOOD

Nos. CR 85-G-197-W, CR 85-AR-198-W, CR 85-P-199-W and CR 85-HM-200-W.

617 F.Supp. 713 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America v. Bessie Jones UNDERWOOD. UNITED STATES of America v. Bobbie Nell SIMPSON. UNITED STATES of America v. James COLVIN. UNITED STATES of America v. Spiver Whitney GORDON and Frederick Douglas Daniels.

United States District Court, N.D. Alabama.

September 11, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank W. Donaldson, U.S. Atty., Tommy E. Tucker, Asst. U.S. Atty., for the U.S.

Henry Sanders, J.L. Chestnut, Jr., Selma, Ala., and John H. England, Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders, Turner & Williams, Birmingham, Ala., William Kunstler, New York City, and Thomas M. Meyer, Point Richmond, Cal., Carlos A. Williams, Birmingham, Ala., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ACKER, District Judge.

On July 29, 1985, each of the defendants in these four cases either filed or adopted a motion attacking the fixing of the boundaries of the three federal judicial districts in Alabama as unconstitutional. This attack was based on the allegation that the boundaries were purposefully drawn in order to dilute the heavily black juror pool in the so-called Black Belt of Alabama by distributing it among the three federal...

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