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SUMTER COUNTY DEMOCRATIC EXEC. COM. v. DEARMAN

No. 74-2124.

514 F.2d 1168 (1975)

SUMTER COUNTY DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. W. E. DEARMAN, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 23, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. E. Still, Jr., Tuscaloosa, Ala., Drake & Knowles, University, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Perry Hubbard, Tuscaloosa, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and MURRAH and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

This appeal brings before us once again the difficult and complex problems that we must face in our Constitutionally and Congressionally mandated duty to ensure that the right to vote of no American is abridged. Holding that under Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1973c, the determination of whether there has been a change in a voting practice or procedure must be made by a three-Judge Court, we vacate the District...

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