WHITE v. CROOK

Civ. A. No. 2263-N

251 F.Supp. 401 (1966)

Gardenia WHITE et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, by Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Attorney General of the United States, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. Bruce CROOK et al., Defendants.

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

February 7, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orzell Billingsley, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., Charles Morgan, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., Melvin L. Wulf, Dorothy Kenyon and Pauli Murray, New York City, for plaintiffs.

John Doar, Asst. Atty. Gen., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Ben Hardeman, U. S. Atty., Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff-intervenor.

Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen., Robert P. Bradley and Leslie Hall, Asst. Attys. Gen., State of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala., for members of the Lowndes County Jury Commission and Mrs. Kelly Coleman, defendants.

Harry Cole, of Ball & Ball, Montgomery, Ala., for all other defendants.

Before RIVES, Circuit Judge, and ALLGOOD and JOHNSON, District Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This action was instituted as a class action by male and female residents of Lowndes County, Alabama, against the individual members of the jury commission of Lowndes County, Alabama. Subsequently, the plaintiffs amended by adding as defendants other officials of Lowndes County and the State of Alabama, who, according to the amended complaint, performed certain functions in connection with the jury selection and jury use in Lowndes County, Alabama. By...

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