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MOORE v. LEFLORE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COM'RS

No. 73-3090.

502 F.2d 621 (1974)

James MOORE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross Appellants, v. LEFLORE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS et al., Defendants, William L. Kellum, James D. Green and James M. Hooper, Jr., Individually and as Members of the Board of Supervisors of Leflore County, Mississippi, Defendants-Appellants-Cross Appellees, and Robert Lee Kyle and Ray Tribble, Minority Members of the Board of Supervisors of Leflore County, Mississippi, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 10, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. C. McBee, Robert M. Carpenter, Greenwood, Miss., for defendants-appellants-cross appellees.

David M. Lipman, Jackson, Miss., Frank R. Parker, Johnnie E. Walls, Jr., Greenwood, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellees-cross appellants.

James W. Burgoon, Jr., Greenwood, Miss., for Leflore County and Kyle and Ray Tribble.

Before DYER and MORGAN, Circuit Judges, and KRAFT, District Judge.

LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, seven black residents of Leflore County, Mississippi, brought this action in 1971, challenging the decision of the county's Board of Supervisors to hold at-large, rather than district, elections for Board positions. A three-judge court allowed the election to be held on an at-large basis but ordered the Board to develop a redistricting plan which would cure the county's unconstitutional...

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