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UNITED STATES v. BRUCE

No. 22028.

353 F.2d 474 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. W. Henderson BRUCE et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 16, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold H. Greene, Gerald P. Choppin, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Vernol R. Jansen, Jr., U. S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., Louis M. Kauder, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., John Doar, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., David Rubin, Bernard J. Haugen, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

J. E. Wilkinson, Jr., W. McLean Pitts, Selma, Ala., for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and RIVES and GEWIN, Circuit Judges.

TUTTLE, Chief Judge:

One of the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 says that "no person shall intimidate, threaten, coerce or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote * * *"1

A further provision of this Act authorizes the Attorney General of the United States to institute, in the name of the United States, a civil action seeking...

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