Richard ROE, etc., Plaintiff,
v.
L. T. CONN, etc., et al., Defendants.
Margaret Ann WAMBLES, etc., Plaintiff,
v.
L. T. CONN, etc., et al., Defendants.
Richard ROE, etc., et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
Cecil COPPAGE et al., Defendants.
United States District Court, M. D. Alabama, N. D.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
July 6, 1976.
July 6, 1976.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Pamela S. Horowitz, Joseph J. Levin, Jr., John L. Carroll and Morris S. Dees, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs in all three cases.
Nicholas T. Braswell, III (Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett), Montgomery, Ala., for the defendant Montgomery Police officials — L. T. Conn, a patrolman with the City of Montgomery Police Department, and E. L. Wright, Jr., the Chief of Police, and Charles Swindall, who succeeded him as Chief of Police during the pendency of these suits.
Jack A. Blumenfeld, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala., for Barbara Ward, the Director of the Montgomery County Youth Facility, and Judge William F. Thetford, Judge of the Montgomery County Family Court, and Judge John W. Davis, who succeeded Judge Thetford during the course of these lawsuits and Probate Judge Walker Hobbie, Jr.
Jamie L. Pettigrew, Mary Lee Stapp and J. Michael Crouch, Asst. Attys. Gen., State of Alabama, Dept. of Pensions and Security, Montgomery, Ala., for Julia Oliver, the Commissioner of the Alabama Dept. of Pensions and Security, and Ada Kate Morgan, the Director of the Montgomery County Dept. of Pensions and Security.
L. Wayne Collier and L. H. Walden, Montgomery, Ala., for the defendant Cecil Lawrence Coppage.
J. Michael Crouch, Montgomery, Ala., for defendant Probate Judge Walker Hobbie, Jr.
Before RIVES, Circuit Judge, JOHNSON, Chief District Judge, and VARNER, District Judge.
United States District Court, M. D. Alabama, N. D.
OPINION
These cases were consolidated for trial because of a common background of facts. Wambles v. Conn, Civil Action No. 75-233-N, is a class action challenging the constitutionality of Alabama's child neglect law, Alabama Code, Title 13, § 350 et seq. (1958). Plaintiff Margaret Wambles represents a class composed of mothers who have been or may be deprived of the custody of their child or children...
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