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MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM DEMOCRATIC PARTY v. JOHNSON

Civ. A. No. 4082.

299 F.Supp. 93 (1969)

MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM DEMOCRATIC PARTY et al., Plaintiffs, v. Paul B. JOHNSON, Governor of Mississippi et al., Defendants.

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

April 30, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Lewis, Armand Derfner, Lawrence Aschenbrenner, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiff.

Martin R. McLendon, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendant.

Before COLEMAN, Circuit Judge, and COX and NIXON, District Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This is a class action, brought by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and certain Negro residents of Mississippi, in which they seek to have Section Five of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 applied to Section 271 of the Mississippi Constitution, as presently written. At first, plaintiffs sought a declaration that Section 271 violates the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. However...

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