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DILLARD v. CRENSHAW COUNTY

Civ. A. No. 85-T-1332-N.

679 F.Supp. 1546 (1988)

John DILLARD, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CRENSHAW COUNTY, etc., et al., Defendants.

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

February 25, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James U. Blacksher, Mobile, Ala., Larry Menefee, Birmingham, Ala., Edward Still, Reeves & Still, Birmingham, Ala., Julius L. Chambers, Lani Guinier, Pamela Karlan, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New York City, for plaintiffs.

David R. Boyd, Balch & Bingham, Montgomery, Ala., for Lawrence County et al.

Rosa Hamlett Davis, Susan E. Russ, Asst. Attys. Gen., Montgomery, Ala.

Herbert D. Jones, Jr., H.R. Burnham, Burnham, Klinefelter, Halsey, Jones & Cater, Anniston, Ala., for Calhoun County.

ORDER

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

In this case brought under section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1973, this court entered a judgment on October 21, 1986, first, rejecting the at-large chair position suggested by Calhoun County, Alabama to cure the section 2 violation in the manner by which the county elects its commissioners, and, second, requiring in its place that...

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