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DRIGGERS v. GALLION

Civ. A. No. 860-S.

308 F.Supp. 632 (1969)

L. R. DRIGGERS, as Mayor of the City of Dothan, Alabama, and J. B. McCollough and Frank Gwaltney, as members of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Dothan, Alabama, and Earle C. Moody, Parnell S. Lewis and James P. Hall, individually, for themselves, jointly and severally, and for all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Macdonald GALLION, Attorney General of the State of Alabama; Robert Vance, Chairman of the Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee; J. R. Bennett, Jr., Chairman of the Alabama State Republican Executive Committee; Carl E. Sellers, Judge of Probate of Houston County, Alabama; A. B. Clark, Sheriff of Houston County, Alabama; William G. Hause, Chairman of the Houston County Democratic Executive Committee; Alfred J. Saliba, Chairman of the Houston County Republican Executive Committee; and Thomas Littlefield, Harley Halstead, W. H. Hicks, W. E. Yance, and J. B. Davis, as members of the Board of Revenue and Control of Houston County, Alabama, Defendants.

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

December 16, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. R. Lewis, Dothan, Ala., for plaintiffs Moody, Lewis and Hall.

J. Robert Ramsey, of Ramsey & Ramsey, Dothan, Ala., for plaintiffs Driggers, McCollough and Gwaltney.

Gordon Madison, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala., for defendant Atty. Gen. of Alabama.

Truman Hobbs, of Hobbs, Copeland, Franco, Riggs & Screws, Montgomery, Ala., and W. G. Hardwick and Jere C. Segrest, of Hardwick, Hause & Segrest, Dothan, Ala., for probate judge, sheriff and members of Board of Revenue and Control except J. B. Davis.

Sam C. Pointer, Jr., of Brown, Pointer & Pointer, Birmingham, Ala., for Chairman of State Republican Executive Committee and Chairman of Houston County Republican Executive Committee.

William G. Hause, Dothan, Ala., and Robert Vance, Birmingham, Ala., pro se.

ORDER

FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., Chief Judge.

This action was brought by Earle C. Moody, as Mayor of the City of Dothan, Alabama, and others, against Richmond Flowers, the then Attorney General of the State of Alabama, and others, seeking to have the one-man, one-vote principle of Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 84 S.Ct. 1362, 12 L.Ed.2d 506 (1964), applied to the election of the members of the Board of Revenue and Control of...

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