UNITED STATES v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

Civ. A. No. 3312.

256 F.Supp. 344 (1966)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI et al., Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

May 21, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Atty. Gen. of United States, Robert Owen, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., for the United States.

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen. of Mississippi, Charles Clark, Jackson, Miss., Hardy Lott, Greenwood, Miss., Joseph Dale, Donald G. Kruger, Prentiss, Miss., Cleveland Davis, Itta Bena, Miss., G. B. Herring, Joe R. Fancher, Jr., Canton, Miss., B. D. Statham, Magnolia, Miss., Aubrey Bell, Greenwood, Miss., W. M. Deavours, M. B. Weems, Laurel, Miss., Robert L. Goza, Jr., Canton, Miss., for State of Mississippi.

Before BROWN, Circuit Judge, and COX and CLAYTON, District Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Subsequent to the remand in this case, United States v. Mississippi, 1965, 380 U.S. 128, 85 S.Ct. 808, 13 L.Ed.2d 717, two significant things have occurred which have precipitated the filing of an amended complaint by the United States. There was first the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 79 Stat. 437, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1973 et seq. and, second, the amendments to the Mississippi Constitution and its statutory...

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