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MISS. STATE CHAPTER, OPERATION PUSH v. ALLAIN

Civ. A. No. DC 84-35-D-O.

674 F.Supp. 1245 (1987)

MISSISSIPPI STATE CHAPTER, OPERATION PUSH, et al., Plaintiffs, v. William A. ALLAIN, Governor of Mississippi, Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Attorney General, Dick Molpus, Secretary of State, Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners, Lillie B. Brown, Circuit Clerk Quitman County, Robert Carter, Circuit Clerk Panola County, Martha Sellers, City Clerk Crenshaw, Miss., Billy Jones, City Clerk Sledge, Miss., Royliene Griffin, City Clerk Crowder, Mississippi, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Mississippi, Delta Division.

November 16, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith Reed, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., New York City, Frank R. Parker, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., Johnnie Walls, Greenville, Miss., for plaintiffs.

T. Hunt Cole, Jr., Spec. Asst. Atty. Gen., Hubbard T. Saunders, IV, Jackson, Miss., Andrew R. Carr, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

DAVIDSON, District Judge.

Invoking this court's federal question and civil rights subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1343 and 42 U.S.C. § 1973j(f), the eight named individual plaintiffs and two organizational plaintiffs brought this voting rights action individually and on behalf of two plaintiff classes which have previously been certified in this action as: (1) all black citizens of...

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