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MOORE v. LEFLORE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COM'RS

No. GC 71-84.

351 F.Supp. 848 (1971)

James MOORE et al., Plaintiffs, v. LEFLORE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

October 18, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Brittain, Jr., Jackson, Miss., Johnnie E. Walls, Jr., Greenwood, Miss., David M. Lipman, Oxford, Miss., for plaintiffs.

R. C. McBee, James W. Burgoon, Greenwood, Miss., for defendants.

Before COLEMAN, Circuit Judge, and KEADY and SMITH, District Judges.

KEADY, District Judge:

Plaintiffs, who are black voters of Leflore County, Mississippi, bring this suit in equity against the Board of Election Commissioners and Board of Supervisors of Leflore County, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against defendants to prevent them from applying Miss.Code Ann. § 2870 as amended in 1966 so as to provide for election of supervisors from the county at large rather than by districts.1 Claiming...

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