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FAIRLEY v. PATTERSON

No. 73-1566.

493 F.2d 598 (1974)

J. C. FAIRLEY et al., etc., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross Appellees, v. Joe T. PATTERSON, Attorney General of the State of Mississippi, et al., etc., Defendants-Appellees, Olyer Blackwell, etc., Intervenor-Appellant, W. U. (Bill) Sigler et al., etc., Defendants-Appellees-Cross Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 1, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Constance Iona Slaughter, Forest, Miss., Frank R. Parker, George Peach Taylor, Herman Wilson, Jackson, Miss., Edward J. Currie, Jr., Hattiesburg, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

John G. Kester, Washington, D. C., for intervenor-appellant.

A. F. Summer, Atty. Gen. of Miss., William A. Allain, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for State of Miss.

Stone D. Barefield, R. W. Heidelberg, D. Gary Sutherland, James F. McKenzie, Hattiesburg, Miss., for Bd. of Supervisors.

Before TUTTLE, DYER and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is the consolidation of two suits from the district court, the first involving reapportionment and the second a request for attorneys' fees and expenses in the first. The reapportionment suit is brought under the fourteenth and twenty-sixth amendments to the United States Constitution challenging the district court's approval of the exclusion by county officials of a "class" of college students from the reapportionment of Forrest...

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