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UNITED STATES v. PENTON

Civ. A. No. 1741-N.

212 F.Supp. 193 (1962)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. George PENTON, Mrs. Samuella P. Willis, Registrars of Voters of Montgomery County, Alabama, and State of Alabama, Defendants.

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

November 20, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Doar, David L. Norman and Arvid A. Sather, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

William F. Thetford, Sol., Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Montgomery, Ala., and Maury D. Smith and James J. Carter, Montgomery, Alabama, for the members of the Board of Registrars of Montgomery County, Alabama; and MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., Willard W. Livingston, Leslie Hall, Gordon Madison, John Tyson, III, Asst. Attys. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for defendant State of Alabama.

JOHNSON, District Judge.

This action was instituted on August 3, 1961, by the Attorney General in the name of the United States pursuant to the provisions of Part IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (42 U.S.C.A. § 1971, 71 Stat. 637), as amended by the Civil Rights Act of 1960 (74 Stat. 90). The State of Alabama is joined as a party defendant pursuant to § 601(b) of the Civil Rights Act of 1960; the individual defendants are joined as members of the Board...

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