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APACHE COUNTY v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 292-66.

256 F.Supp. 903 (1966)

APACHE COUNTY, Navajo County, Coconino County, and the State of Arizona, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

July 26, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace L. Duncan, Jennings, Strouss, Salmon & Trask, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

John Doar, Asst. Atty. Gen., Stephen J. Pollak, Gerald W. Jones and Louis M. Kauder, Attys. Dept. of Justice, and David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., for defendant.

Norman M. Littell, and Jerry L. Haggard, Washington, D. C., for applicants for intervention Navajo Tribe of Indians and individual members of Tribe.

Before EDGERTON, Senior Circuit Judge, LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge, and HOLTZOFF, District Judge.

OPINION

LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge:

This is an action, the first of its kind, brought under Section 4(a) of the Voting Rights Act of 19651 by plaintiff counties and the State of Arizona for a declaratory judgment that would permit reinstatement of the operation of the literacy test which Arizona's legislature has prescribed as a requirement for voter registration.2 Specifically, plaintiffs seek a judgment...

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