UNITED STATES v. DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Civ. A. No. 2685-N.

288 F.Supp. 943 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America by Ramsey CLARK, Attorney General, Plaintiff, v. The DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF BARBOUR COUNTY, ALABAMA et al., Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Alabama, N. D.

July 24, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ramsey Clark, Atty. Gen., Stephen J. Pollak, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frank M. Dunbaugh and Lester N. Scall, Attys., U. S. Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Ben Hardeman, U. S. Atty., Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff.

Preston Clayton, Eufaula, Ala., for defendants.


ORDER

FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., Chief Judge.

In this case the United States challenges the lawfulness of a voting procedure enacted by the Democratic Executive Committee (hereinafter the "Committee") for the election of members to that Committee. The procedure was adopted by Committee Resolution1 February 17, 1968. The United States alleges that this resolution was adopted with the purpose and effect of diminishing the effectiveness...

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