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DILLARD v. CRENSHAW COUNTY

Civ. A. No. 85-T-1332-N.

748 F.Supp. 819 (1990)

John DILLARD, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CRENSHAW COUNTY, et al., Defendants.

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

May 25, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Blacksher, Birmingham, Ala., Julius L. Chambers, Scherlyn Ifill, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New York City, Edward Still, Reeves & Still, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiffs.

David R. Boyd, Balch & Bingham, Don Siegelman, Office of Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., Frank Ellis, Wallace, Ellis, Head & Fowler, Columbiana, Ala., Raymond P. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., T. Dudley Perry, Perry & Perry, Montgomery, Ala., David C. Johnson, Robert R. Black, Birmingham, Ala., for defendants.

ORDER

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

The plaintiffs in this class-action lawsuit are African-American citizens of Shelby County, Alabama, who claim that the at-large voting system used to elect the county's governing commission violates § 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended.1 The defendant Shelby County Commission initially denied liability, but, after trial, voted to approve a settlement agreement with the...

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