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SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE v. EVANS

Civ. A. No. 88-H-462-N.

785 F.Supp. 1469 (1992)

SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE OF ALABAMA, on Behalf of its members and on Behalf of a state-wide class of black voters, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Attorney General James H. EVANS, et al., Defendants, United States of America, Amicus Curiae.

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

March 18, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Richard Cohen and Elizabeth Johnson, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Simon, Wood & Crane, James C. Wood, Mobile, Ala., for defendant L.W. Noonan.

Balch & Bingham, David R. Boyd, Montgomery, Ala., Maynard, Cooper, Frierson & Gale, Fournier J. Gale, III, Birmingham, Ala., Atty. Gen. of Alabama's Office, Walter S. Turner, Chief Asst. Atty. Gen. and Asst. Attys. Gen. Ronald C. Forehand, Mark Givhan and Susan E. Russ, Montgomery, Ala., for all other defendants.

Blackwell & Keith, Cartledge W. Blackwell, Jr., Selma, Ala., additional counsel, for defendant John W. Jones, Jr.

John R. Dunne, Asst. Atty. Gen., Civ. Rights Div., Steven H. Rosenbaum, Sheila Delaney and Rebecca J. Wertz, Voting Section, CRD, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington D.C., U.S. Atty. M.D.Ala., Montgomery, Ala., for United States, amicus curiae.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HOBBS, District Judge.

This action was filed in May 1988 by black voters within various judicial circuits and districts in Alabama. Defendants are the Alabama Attorney General, the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, the Alabama Secretary of State, and various probate judges. Plaintiffs claim that the system for electing judges in Alabama leaves black voters without an equal opportunity "to participate in the political process...

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