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BLACK v. CURB

Nos. 27317, 27662.

422 F.2d 656 (1970)

Lewis BLACK et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America, by John Mitchell, Attorney General, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. Clarence CURB et al., Defendants-Appellees. Jack McNEIR et al., Plaintiff-Appellants, United States of America, by John Mitchell, Attorney General, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. Carl AGEE et al., Defendants-Appellees. Maloyd E. JONES et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Cephus R. HOLLIMAN et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 6, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Morgan, Jr., Reber F. Boult, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., Orzell Billingsley, Jr., James K. Baker, Birmingham, Ala., Charles White-Spunner, U. S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., Jerris Leonard, Asst. Atty. Gen., John T. Nixon, David Gregory, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Melvin L. Wulf, Eleanor Holmes Norton, New York City, of counsel, for appellants Black and others.

Vernol R. Jansen, Jr., U. S. Atty., David L. Norman, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., Carol R. Aronoff, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., Robert P. Bradley, Leslie Hall, Asst. Attys. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., Leon Y. Sadler, County Sol., Camden, Ala., McLean Pitts, Selma, Ala., Richard H. Poellnitz, Greensboro, Ala., L. Y. Sadler, Jr., Wilcox County Atty., Camden, Ala., O. S. Burke, Hale County Atty., Greensboro, Ala., Thomas H. Boggs, Circuit Sol., Linden, Ala., of counsel, for appellees.

James K. Baker, Birmingham, Ala., Reber Boult, Jr., Charles Morgan, Jr., George Dean, Atlanta, Ga., for appellants Jones and others.

Before RIVES, COLEMAN, and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

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Black v. Curb and McNeir v. Agee

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