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BROADWAY v. CULPEPPER

No. 29391.

439 F.2d 1253 (1971)

Carl BROADWAY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant, v. Robert CULPEPPER, Jr., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 31, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walker P. Johnson, Jr., U. S. Atty., Macon, Ga., for the United States.

C. B. King, Albany, Ga., Norman Amaker, Jack Greenberg, New York City, Fletcher Farrington, Walter Gorman, Attys., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Frank S. Twitty, Camilla, Ga., L. Earl Jones, Newton, Ga., for defendants-appellees.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, DYER and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

In this class action against the jury commissioners of Baker County, Georgia, the Negro residents claimed that members of their race have been systematically excluded from jury service in that county and seek injunctive relief.

After considerable success — impelled in no small measure by a combination of the intervening order of the District Court, the 1967 revision of the Georgia Code, and the operation of the Voter Rights...

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