PAIGE v. GRAY

Civ. A. Nos. 74-50-Alb, 75-27-Alb.

399 F.Supp. 459 (1975)

Fanny PAIGE et al., Plaintiffs, v. James GRAY, Mayor of the City of Albany, Georgia, et al., Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF ALBANY et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Georgia, Albany Division.

August 16, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary M. Young, Alfred O. Bragg, III, William Joseph Baird, Jr., Albany, Ga., David F. Walbert, Atlanta, Ga., Edward H. Levi, Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice Washington, D. C., Ronald T. Knight, U. S. Atty., Macon, Ga., Michael Johnson, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

James V. Davis, Edmund A. Landau, Albany, Ga., for defendants.


OWENS, District Judge:

Fanny Paige, Erma Moss, Mary Young and Grady Caldwell, individually and as representatives of a class1 of all black citizens of the City of Albany entitled to vote therein, by their complaint filed December 9, 1974, seek to invalidate the present at-large system of electing five city commissioners of the City of Albany, Georgia, who with the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem of said city constitute all the elected officials...

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