UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff,
Timothy D. Pope, Plaintiff-Intervenor,
Johnny Reynolds, et al., Plaintiff-Intervenors,
Eugene Crum, Jr., et al., Plaintiff-Intervenors,
v.
Tommy. G. FLOWERS, et al., Defendants.
Alabama State Conference of NAACP Branches, Amicus Curiae.
United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 30, 2006.
June 30, 2006.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Jay D. Adelstein, Marybeth Martin, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC, Patricia A. Snyder, U.S. Attorney's Office, Montgomery, AL, for Plaintiff.
Gary Lamar Brown, Jimmy Michael Cooper, Raymond P. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Fitzpatrick, Cooper & Clark, Birmingham, AL, Arm K. Wiggins, Deborah Ann Mattison, Henry Wallace Blizzard, III, Kell Ascher Simon, Robert L. Wiggins, Jr., Rocco Calamusa, Jr., Russell Wayne Adams, Susan Gale Donahue, Robert F. Childs, Jr., Wiggins Childs Quinn & Pantanzis, PC, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff-Intervenor.
Christopher W. Weller, Henry Clay Barnett, Jr., Mai Lan Fogal Isler, Capell Howard PC, Montgomery, AL, John J. Park, Jr., Margaret L. Fleming, Office of the Attorney General, Richard N. Meadows, State Personnel Department, Alice Aim Byrne, State Personnel Department, Montgomery, AL, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, Birmingham, AL, Patrick Hanlon Sims, Cabaniss Johnston Gardner Dumas & O'Neal, Mobile, AL, for Defendant.
Alabama Department of Corrections, Legal Division, Montgomery, AL, pro se.
J. Richard Cohen, Montgomery, AL, for Amicus Curiae.
United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division.
OPINION
MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.
The issue before the court is whether, after approximately a third of a century, the court-imposed no-bypass rule should be terminated. In general, the rule prohibits Alabama state officials from bypassing a higher-ranked African-American applicant in favor of a lower-ranked white applicant on a certificate of eligibles. Because there are no disputed issues of material fact, see Fed.R.Civ.P. 56, and for the...
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