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SEALS v. QUARTERLY COUNTY COURT OF MADISON COUNTY, TENN.

No. 73-1673.

496 F.2d 76 (1974)

Rev. William SEALS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The QUARTERLY COUNTY COURT OF MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 23, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Caldwell, Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiffs-appellants; Ratner, Sugarmon & Lucas, Memphis, Tenn., Nathaniel R. Jones, New York City, on brief.

Hewitt P. Tomlin, Jr., Waldrop, Hall, Tomlin & Farmer, Jackson, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and WEICK and MILLER, Circuit Judges.

PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

This action was filed by a group of black citizens of Madison County, Tennessee, attacking a plan providing for election from the county at large of all members of the county's governing body, known in Tennessee as the Quarterly County Court.

Approximately 30 per cent of the population of Madison County is black. Plaintiffs assert that the equal protection and voting rights of black citizens guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth...

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