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CLARK v. BOYNTON

No. 23157.

362 F.2d 992 (1966)

James G. CLARK, Jr., Sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama, Appellant, v. Amelia P. BOYNTON et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 1, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. G. Gayle, Philip Henry Pitts, J. E. Wilkinson, Jr., W. McLean Pitts, Selma, Ala., for appellant.

Peter A. Hall, Birmingham, Ala., Norman C. Amaker, Jack Greenberg, Charles H. Jones, Jr., Charles Stephen Ralston, New York City, for appellees.

Vernol R. Jansen, Jr., U. S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., amicus curiae.

Before BROWN and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

This is another fall out from the Selma, Alabama racial-voter registration crisis of the spring of 1965. The aspect here is the present appeal by Sheriff Clark from an order of the United States District Court holding him in contempt of previous orders issued by Judge Thomas. In the memorandum order of contempt the Court found that Sheriff Clark is "in contempt of this Court's order" and then, of decisive importance here, declared that...

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