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UNITED STATES v. DALLAS COUNTY COM'N

Civ. A. No. 78-0578-H.

636 F.Supp. 704 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. DALLAS COUNTY COMMISSION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Alabama, S.D.

June 16, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jefferson B. Sessions, III, U.S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., J. Gerald Hebert, Ellen M. Weber, Paul Hancock, Policarpio A. Marmolejos, Voting Section, Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

John E. Pilcher, Cartledge W. Blackwell, Jr., Philip Henry Pitts, William T. Faile, Selma, Ala., Edward S. Allen, Birmingham, Ala., for defendants.

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

HAND, Chief Judge.

This cause was originally filed by the United States on October 19, 1978. In this litigation, the United States has challenged the at-large method of electing the Dallas County Commission and the Dallas County Board of Education as violative of § 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1971 and 1973, and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The Government alleges...

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