SIMS v. AMOS

Civ. A. Nos. 1744-N, 3017-N, and 3459-N.

340 F.Supp. 691 (1972)

M. O. SIMS et al., Plaintiffs, R. E. Farr et al., Intervening Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff and Amicus Curiae, v. Mabel AMOS, Secretary of State of the State of Alabama, et al., Defendants, Pierre Pelham et al., Intervening Defendants. E. D. NIXON et al., Plaintiffs, Alabama Independent Democratic Party, a corporation, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. George C. WALLACE, as Governor of the State of Alabama, et al., Defendants, Pierre Pelham et al., Intervening Defendants. J. Elbert PETERS, individually, for himself, and for all others similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. George C. WALLACE, as Governor of the State of Alabama, et al., Defendants, Pierre Pelham et al., Intervening Defendants.

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

March 17, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris Dees, Jr., and Joseph J. Levin, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., Charles Morgan, Jr., Morris Brown and Norman Siegel, Atlanta, Ga., for M. O. Sims, and others.

Ira DeMent, U. S. Atty., M. D., of Ala., Montgomery, Ala., for the United States.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., State of Ala., Gordon Madison, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., and Julian D. Butler, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Butler & Potter, Huntsville, Ala., for Mabel Amos and William J. Baxley and others.

James H. Hancock, Balch, Bingham, Baker, Hawthorne & Williams, Birmingham, Ala., for J. Richard Bennett, Jr., and Carolyn Golden.

Robert S. Vance, Callaway & Vance, Birmingham, Ala., pro se and for the Democratic Party and State Executive Committee.

Jack Crenshaw and B. M. Waller, Crenshaw & Waller, Montgomery, Ala., for Pierre Pelham and others.

James W. Garrett, Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett, Montgomery, Ala., for L. D. Owen, Jr., and others.

William L. Irons, Speir & Irons, Birmingham, Ala., for Jefferson County Citizens Committee for Local Self-Government, its corporate officers and members.

Maurice Bishop, Bishop & Carlton, Birmingham, Ala., for Jefferson County, Ala.

Morris Dees, Jr., and Joseph J. Levin, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., Orzell Billingsley, Jr., Peter A. Hall, C. H. Erskine Smith, Birmingham, Ala., for E. D. Nixon and others.

David Vann, Birmingham, Ala., for Independent Democratic Party, a corp.

Dieter J. Schrader, Huntsville, Ala., for J. Elbert Peters, etc.

Before RIVES, Circuit Judge, and THOMAS and JOHNSON, District Judges.


PER CURIAM:

On January 3, 1972, in a formal opinion and decree, 336 F.Supp. 924, this Court declared that the Alabama Legislature was malapportioned and that, as a result, plaintiffs were underrepresented in the State Legislature and were denied the right to equal suffrage in violation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Pursuant to its declaration...

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