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MONROE v. CITY OF WOODVILLE, MISS.

Civ. A. No. W85-0088(B).

636 F.Supp. 423 (1986)

John MONROE, Dora Monroe, Jimmy Harris, Larry Johnson and Similarly Situated Persons, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF WOODVILLE, MISSISSIPPI; George J. Gonda, as Mayor; Gary D'Aquilla, Charles James, Andy J. Lewis and Ron Senko, in Their Capacity as Members of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Woodville; and Fred Townsend, City Clerk, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, W.D.

June 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Southwest Miss. Legal Services, Willie L. Rose, McComb, Miss., for plaintiffs.

Richard T. Watson, Woodville, Miss., Dennis L. Horn, Hazelhurst, Miss., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BARBOUR, District Judge.

Presently before the Court for disposition in this Voting Rights Act case is Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment. The case presents the straight-forward question of whether at-large elections for city aldermen violate the "results" standard of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act where black voters constituted a pre-existing effective majority of the electorate.

According to the 1980 census...

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