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TOOMBS v. FORTSON

Civ. A. No. 7883.

277 F.Supp. 821 (1967)

Henry J. TOOMBS, Mrs. George Taylor Douglas, Gordon G. Johnson and John L. Glenn, Plaintiffs, v. Ben W. FORTSON, Jr., as Secretary of State of Georgia, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

Opinion December 8, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis Shackelford, Hamilton Lokey, Atlanta, Ga., Joseph B. Cumming, Augusta, Ga., Edward S. White, Israel Katz, Atlanta, Ga., William B. Gunter, A. R. Kenyon, Gainesville, Ga., Emmet J. Bondurant, Atlanta, Ga., J. Quentin Davidson, Columbus, Ga., Albert P. Reichert, Macon, Ga., John E. Simpson, Savannah, Ga., Raymond M. Reed, Marietta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen. State of Georgia, King & Spalding (also for Eugene Gunby), Atlanta, Ga., George P. Dillard, Herbert O. Edwards, and Robert E. Mozley (also for Katherine E. Mann), Decatur, Ga., for defendants.

Scott, Scroggins, Cash & Crim, Atlanta, Ga., for George Finch, James H. Gray, George D. Stewart, Neill Leach, Schley Thompson and James P. Wesberry, Jr. (party defendants per order of Court).

Brown & Dollar, Douglasville, Ga., for intervenors, R. L. Smith, W. S. Baggett and R. E. Strickland.

Before TUTTLE and BELL, Circuit Judges, and MORGAN, District Judge.

ORDER ON MOTION FOR PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE

PER CURIAM.

The motion filed February 6, 1967, by the defendant Honorable Ben W. Fortson, Jr., for a "pre-trial conference" in this state of these proceedings is hereby denied.

This motion appears to be directed to a desire on behalf of defendant Fortson to provide an opportunity for the State Senate, as one of two chambers of the Georgia General Assembly, once more to justify its present method of apportionment...

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