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DILLARD v. CITY OF GREENSBORO

No. CIV. A. 87-T-1223-N.

34 F.Supp.2d 1330 (1999)

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

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

January 14, 1999.

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, NY, Edward Still, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for John Dillard, Damascus Crittenden, Jr., Earwen Ferrell, Clarence J. Jarrells, Ullysses McBride, Louis Hall, Jr., plaintiffs.

James U. Blacksher, Birmingham, AL, Elaine R. Jones, Norman J. Chachkin, Jacqueline A. Berrien, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New York, NY, Edward Still, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for Bobby Singleton, Teresa Buroughs, J.S. Thomas, Mamie Kennedy, intervenor-plaintiffs.

Richard H. Gill, Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, P.A., 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 Attorney General Alabama State House, Montgomery, AL, for City of Greensboro, defendant.

ORDER

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

The plaintiffs, African-American citizens of defendant City of Greensboro, Alabama, brought this lawsuit about twelve years ago, claiming that the at-large system used by the city to elect its city council violated § 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1973. This lawsuit is one of many § 2 voting-rights cases that have been before the court challenging at-large election...

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