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DOVE v. BUMPERS

No. PB 68 C-73.

364 F.Supp. 407 (1973)

William DOVE, Sr., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Dale BUMPERS, Governor of the State of Arkansas, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Arkansas, Pine Bluff Division.

September 17, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Howard, Jr., Pine Bluff, Ark., and James N. Finney, New York City, for plaintiffs.

William R. Holland, John A. Davis, III, Pine Bluff, Ark., and Henry Ginger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for defendants.

Before GIBSON, Circuit Judge, and HENLEY and HARRIS, District Judges.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

OREN HARRIS, District Judge:

This action was instituted by the plaintiffs, William Dove, Sr., Rev. Isaac Tate, Vannett Johnson, and Albert Baxter, black citizens of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as a class action challenging the constitutionality of a statute of the State of Arkansas which provides the method of electing aldermen in the cities of the first class with population of 50,000 or more.1

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