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BROWN v. MOORE

Civ. A. No. 75-298-P.

428 F.Supp. 1123 (1976)

Leila G. BROWN et al., Plaintiffs, v. John L. MOORE et al., individually and in his official capacity as Probate Judge of Mobile County, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Alabama, S. D.

As Amended December 13, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory B. Stein, J. U. Blacksher and Larry Menefee, Mobile, Ala., Edward Still, Birmingham, Ala., Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, and Chas. E. Williams, III, New York City, for plaintiffs.

James C. Wood, Ralph Kennamer, Abe Philips, Mobile, Ala., for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER AS TO THE BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS OF MOBILE COUNTY, ET AL.

PITTMAN, Chief Judge.

This is an action brought by Leila G. Brown, and other black plaintiffs representing all Mobile County, Alabama, blacks as a class, claiming the present at-large system of electing county commissioners and school commissioners abridges the rights of the County's black citizens under the First, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution...

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