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SEALS v. QUARTERLY CTY. COURT OF MADISON CTY.

No. 75-1170.

526 F.2d 216 (1975)

Rev. Williams 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 October 23, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elijah Noel, Jr., Louis R. Lucas, Ratner, Sugarmon & Lucas, William E. Caldwell, Memphis, Tenn., J. Harold Flannery, Washington, D.C., Nathaniel R. Jones, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

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

Before EDWARDS, PECK and ENGEL, Circuit Judges.

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

Appellants in this case are black citizens of Madison County, Tennessee, who have joined in a class action to attack a reapportionment plan instituted by the county government of Madison County, Tennessee, on the heels of the one-man-one-vote decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 84 S.Ct. 1362, 12 L.Ed.2d 506 (1964); Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S....

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