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PITTS v. BUSBEE

No. 74-2630.

511 F.2d 126 (1975)

Robert PITTS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George BUSBEE, Governor of the State of Georgia, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 24, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen. of Ga., Robert S. Stubbs, II, Executive Asst. Atty. Gen., Timothy J. Sweeney, Dorothy Y. Kirkley, Asst. Attys. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for defendants-appellants.

Stuart E. Eizenstat, Gary N. Ackerman, Gary D. Zweifel, Michael H. Chanin, Atlanta, Ga., amici curiae for Ray Abernathy.

Hugh W. Gibert, Robert L. Schwind, Richard G. Garrett, Atlanta, Ga., amici curiae for Lee J. Roach.

Bernard Parks, George L. Howell, Carl T. Horton, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before THORNBERRY, RONEY and GEE, Circuit Judges.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

The background details of this voting rights case may be traced in and through the opinion of a three-judge court, 380 F.Supp. 4 (N.D.Ga.1974) and the subsequent single-judge opinion on remand, 380 F.Supp. 8 (N.D.Ga.1974), from which this appeal is taken.

Briefly stated, a 1952 Georgia local act provided for a board of three commissioners in Fulton County, each...

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