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BLACKWELL v. THOMAS

Nos. 72-2097, 72-2065.

476 F.2d 443 (1973)

Virginia BLACKWELL et al., Appellants, v. C. C. THOMAS, Jr., et al., Appellees. S. J. VANDROSS et al., Appellants, v. W. Marvin LANE et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 3, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laughlin McDonald, Columbia, S. C. and Neil Bradley, Atlanta, Ga. (Charles Morgan, Jr., Norman Siegel and Morris Brown, Atlanta, Ga., on brief), for appellants in Nos. 72-2065 and 72-2097.

Alexander S. Macaulay, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen. of South Carolina, Malcolm C. Woods, Jr., Marion County Atty., on brief), for appellees in No. 72-2065.

Donald V. Myers, Asst. Atty. Gen. of South Carolina (Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen., and Alexander S. Macaulay, Asst. Atty. Gen., of South Carolina, on brief), for appellees in No. 72-2097.

Before WINTER, CRAVEN and FIELD, Circuit Judges.

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

In two class actions, the contention that women and blacks were systematically excluded from grand and petit juries in Dillon and Marion Counties, South Carolina, respectively, was asserted. In No. 72-2097 (Blackwell v. Thomas, involving Dillon County), the district court dismissed the case as moot on the basis of stipulated facts. In No. 72-2065 (Vandross v. Lane, involving Marion County), the district...

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