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KIRKSEY v. DANKS

Civ. A. No. J83-0077(B).

608 F.Supp. 1448 (1985)

Henry J. KIRKSEY, Fred L. Banks, Jr., Credell Calhoun, Hillman Frazier, Henrene Matthews, Carsie A. Hall, Ms. Annie K. Ward, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Dale DANKS, Jr., Mayor and City Commissioner of the City of Jackson; George R. Porter, City Commissioner of the City of Jackson; Luther R. Roan, Jr., City Commissioner of the City of Jackson; City of Jackson, Mississippi, a municipal corporation; Jackson Municipal Democratic Executive Committee; V.H. McDaniel, Chairman of the Jackson Municipal Democratic Executive Committee; Jackson Municipal Republican Executive Committee; Jackson Municipal Election Commission; Jackie Povall, Bernice Denmar, and Minnie Gay Boyles, Members of the Jackson Municipal Election Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

May 10, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nausead Stewart, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Jackson, Miss., Frank R. Parker, William L. Robinson, Patricia M. Hanrahan, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

John Hedglin, City Attorney, City of Jackson, Jackson, Miss., for defendants.

Jerris Leonard, Kathleen Heenan McGuan, Jerris Leonard & Associates, Washington, D.C., for D. Danks, L.R. Roan, G.R. Porter & City of Jackson.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BARBOUR, District Judge.

This case is presently pending before the Court on Motion of the Plaintiff for an award of attorney's fees and litigation expenses. Litigation by black voters of Jackson challenging at-large city council elections has gone on for seven and a half years.

Jackson, Mississippi adopted a commission form of government with at-large elections in 1912, and since then no black candidate has been elected...

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