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PERRY v. CITY OF OPELOUSAS

No. 74-2455.

515 F.2d 639 (1975)

Charles PERRY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF OPELOUSAS et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. James HARRIS et al., Intervenors-Appellants, United States of America, Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 7, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marion Overton White, Joshua J. Pitre, Opelousas, La., for intervenors-appellants.

James P. Doherty, Leon S. Haas, Jr., Opelousas, La., for Perry and others.

Richard B. Millspaugh, Opelousas, La., for Hudson.

Gerald W. Jones, Civ. Rights Div., Voting & Public Accommodations, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for other interested parties.

Before GOLDBERG and RONEY, Circuit Judges, and GROOMS, District Judge.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This case presents questions almost identical to the ones we have already encountered today in Wallace v. House, 5 Cir. 1975, 515 F.2d 619. We are again asked to decide the constitutionality of various aldermanic election schemes in a Louisiana municipality. Here, as in Wallace, the district court found that the traditional all-at-large election plan substantially diluted the voting rights of the black...

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