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GRESHAM v. HARRIS

Civ. A. No. 1:87-CV-867-JOF.

695 F.Supp. 1179 (1988)

Emma GRESHAM, Turetha Neely, Clayton Neely, Jr., Sharon Anfield, Donald Wright, Melvin Streetman, Earl M. Neely, Mary L. Holland, Alvin Lewis, Sr., Nollie Mae Morris, Quinton Gresham, Plaintiffs, v. Joe Frank HARRIS, Governor of Georgia, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General of Georgia, Russell N. Sewell, Jr., Executive Counsel to the Governor of Georgia, State Election Board of Georgia, Max Cleland, Secretary of State of Georgia and Chairman of the State Election Board, Burke County Board of Registrars, Weston Fortson, W.E. Bessent, John M. Moseley, Chief Registrar and Members Respectively of the Board of Registrars, Burke County Board of Elections, Ralph B. Willis, Michael N. Searles, and Morris Green, Chairman and Members Respectively of the Board of Elections, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

Judgment Vacated December 5, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis Pitts, Gayle Korotkin, Chapel Hill, N.C., Neil T. Bradley, Moffatt Laughlin McDonald, American Civil Liberties Union, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

Hugh Jeffery Lanier, Office of State Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., Preston B. Lewis, Jr., Lewis & Lewis, Waynesboro, Ga., for defendants.

Before EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge, and ROBERT H. HALL and FORRESTER, District Judges.

Judgment Vacated December 5, 1988. See 109 S.Ct. 523.

ORDER

FORRESTER, District Judge.

This action under the Voting Rights Act is before the three-judge court on the plaintiffs' motion for a permanent injunction. The plaintiffs seek to extend this court's preliminary injunction, which enjoined the defendants from implementing any voting changes directed by the Burke County Superior Court in its December 30, 1987 order absent pre-clearance under section...

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