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UNITED STATES v. ATKINS

No. 20325.

323 F.2d 733 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Victor B. ATKINS et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

October 3, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vernol R. Jansen, Jr., U. S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., Howard A. Glickstein, Harold H. Greene, John Doar, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Burke Marshall, Asst. Atty. Gen., Alan G. Marer, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Richmond M. Flowers, Atty. Gen. of Alabama, Gordon Madison, Leslie Hall, Asst. Attys. Gen. of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala., Blanchard L. McLeod, Camden, Ala., for appellees.

Before RIVES, CAMERON and HAYS, Circuit Judges.

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

The complaint was filed in April 1961 pursuant to the Civil Rights Act of 1957, as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1971, and alleged the employment of certain racially discriminatory acts and practices in the registration of voters in Dallas County, Alabama. Named as defendants were the State of Alabama and J. P. Majors, who was then the only member of the Board of Registrars of Dallas County. In May 1961...

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