JORDAN v. WINTER

Nos. GC 82-80-WK-O, GC 82-81-WK-O.

541 F.Supp. 1135 (1982)

David JORDAN and Sammie Chestnut, On Behalf of the Greenwood Voters League, Individually and on Behalf of others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. William WINTER, Governor of Mississippi; T. H. Campbell, III, Chairperson, Bill Harpole, Vice-Chairperson, J. C. "Con" Maloney, Secretary, Joint Congressional Redistricting Committee; Brad Dye, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi and President of the Senate; and Clarence B. "Buddie" Newman, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Defendants. Owen H. BROOKS, Sarah H. Johnson, Rev. Harold R. Mayberry, Willie Long, Robert E. Young, Thomas Morris, Charles McLaurin, Samuel McCray, Robert Jackson, Rev. Carl Brown, June E. Johnson, and Lee Ethel Henry, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. William F. WINTER, Governor of Mississippi, William A. "Bill" Allain, Attorney General of Mississippi, Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Secretary of State of Mississippi, in their official capacities and as members of the Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners, Mississippi Democratic Executive Committee, Mississippi Republican Executive Committee, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

June 8, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank R. Parker, Washington, D. C., Johnnie E. Walls, Jr., Greenville, Miss., Robert Bruce McDuff, Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

Bill Allain, Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendants.

Before CLARK, Circuit Judge, and KEADY and SENTER, District Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Plaintiffs bring class actions on behalf of Mississippi residents and registered voters and the state's black residents and voters to (1) enjoin enforcement of the state's 1981 congressional redistricting plan until it is precleared under § 5 of the Voting Rights Act (42 U.S.C. § 1973c); (2) prohibit further use of Miss.Code Ann. § 23-5-223 (1972), the state's existing congressional plan, because of population malapportionment allegedly...

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