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KENNEDY v. LYND

Nos. 19636, 19737-19740.

306 F.2d 222 (1962)

Robert F. KENNEDY, Attorney General of the United States, Appellant, v. Theron C. LYND, Registrar of Elections of Forrest County, Mississippi, Appellee. Robert F. KENNEDY, Attorney General of the United States, Appellant, v. Mrs. Mary K. BRYCE, Registrar of Voters of Bossier Parish, Louisiana, Appellee. Robert F. KENNEDY, Attorney General of the United States, Appellant, v. Mrs. Winnice J. P. CLEMENT, Registrar of Voters of Webster Parish, Louisiana, Appellee. Robert F. KENNEDY, Attorney General of the United States, Appellant, v. Sidney Wells PLATT, Registrar of Voters of Desoto Parish, Louisiana, Appellee. Robert F. KENNEDY, Attorney General of the United States, Appellant, v. U. Charles MITCHELL, Registrar of Voters of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 8, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No. 19636:

Robert E. Hauberg, Asst. U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., Harold H. Greene, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Burke Marshall, Asst. Atty. Gen., Howard A. Glickstein, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Francis T. Zachary, M. M. Roberts, Hattiesburg, Miss., Dugas Shands, Peter M. Stockett, Jr., Edward L. Cates, Asst. Attys. Gen. of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss., Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, for appellee.

Nos. 19737-19740:

David Rubin, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Edward L. Shaheen, U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., Burke Marshall, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

John A. Richardson, Shreveport, La., Harry J. Kron, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, La., for appellee.

Before RIVES, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

These cases from two District Courts in two States raise in a number of different procedural ways the central question of the proper disposition of a Title III proceeding by the United States Attorney General for appropriate court orders to obtain "inspection, reproduction, and copying" of voter records. Public Law 86-449, Title III, §§ 301-306, May 1960, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1974.

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