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DILLARD v. CITY OF GREENSBORO

Civil Action No. 87-T-1223-N.

956 F.Supp. 1576 (1997)

John DILLARD, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF GREENSBORO, Defendant.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division.

February 26, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James U. Blacksher, Birmingham, AL, Pamela Karlan, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA, Elaine R. Jones, Norman J. Chachkin, Jacqueline A. Berrien, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New York City, Edward Still, Birmingham, AL, for John Dillard, Damascus Crittenden, Jr., Earwen Ferrell, Clarence J. Jarrells, Ullysses McBride, Louis Hall, Jr., J.S. Thomas, Mamie Kennedy, Bobby Singleton and Teresa Burroughs.

Richard H. Gill, Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, Montgomery, AL, Nicholas H. Cobbs, Jr., Greensboro, AL, David R. Boyd, Balch & Bingham, Montgomery, AL, Mortimer Parker Ames, III, James H. Evans, Office of the Atty. Gen., Montgomery, AL, for City of Greensboro.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief Judge.

This ten-year-old lawsuit, brought by plaintiffs, African-American citizens of defendant City of Greensboro, Alabama, claiming that the at-large system used by the city to elect its city council members violated § 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1973, appears to have reached a long-sought end. This lawsuit is now before the court on the Special Master Richard...

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