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DILLARD v. TOWN OF NORTH JOHNS

Civ. A. No. 87-T-1267-N.

717 F.Supp. 1471 (1989)

John DILLARD, et al., Plaintiffs, v. TOWN of NORTH JOHNS, Defendant.

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

April 12, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James U. Blacksher, Edward Still, Reeves & Still, Birmingham, Ala., Julius L. Chambers, Scherlyn Ifill, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Don Siegelman, Ala. Atty. Gen., Susan Russ, Asst. Atty. Gen., David Boyd, Balch & Bingham, Montgomery, Ala., James Price, Mayor, Adger, Ala., William A. Short, Jr., Bessemer, Ala., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

In this lawsuit, plaintiffs have filed a motion for additional relief charging defendant Town of North Johns with violating § 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, by intentionally withholding candidacy requirement information and forms from two African-Americans, plaintiffs Lovell Richardson and Haywood Jones, who were elected to the town council.1 Plaintiffs...

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