MS DIV. OF UNITED SONS v. MS STATE CONFERENCE OF NAACP BRANCHES

Nos. 94-CA-00615-SCT, 94-CA-00099-SCT and 96-CA-01167-SCT.

774 So.2d 388 (2000)

MISSISSIPPI DIVISION OF the UNITED SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS v. MISSISSIPPI STATE CONFERENCE OF NAACP BRANCHES, et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied December 29, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stone Deavours Barefield, Hattiesburg, Michael Clayton Barefield, Shane F. Langston, Jackson, Attorneys for Appellant.

Office of the Attorney General by T. Hunt Cole, Jr., Attorneys for Appellees.

BEFORE PITTMAN, P.J., MILLS AND COBB, JJ.


PITTMAN, Presiding Justice, for the Court:

I.

¶ 1. On April 19, 1993, the Mississippi State Conference of NAACP Branches, the Jackson, Mississippi NAACP Branch, and eighty-one individual African-Americans (referred to collectively as the "NAACP") filed a lawsuit in the Chancery Court for the First Judicial District of Hinds County, Mississippi, against Kirk Fordice in his capacity as Governor of the State...

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