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U.S. v. DALLAS COUNTY COM'N

Civ. A. No. 78-0578-BH.

671 F.Supp. 1337 (1987)

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

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

October 23, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jefferson B. Sessions, III, U.S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., J. Gerald Hebert, Ellen M. Weber, Paul Hancock, Voting Section Civ. 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.

ORDER

HAND, Chief Judge.

This cause came on for hearing before the Court on October 2, 1987 to address the Court's proposal to implement as to the Dallas County School Board the election plan previously adopted with respect to the Dallas County Commission. The Court's proposed plan consists of four single-member districts of which two districts contain black voter majorities of 75.8% and 67.2%; one district contains a white voter majority of 68.8% and one...

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