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BOLDEN v. CITY OF MOBILE, ALABAMA

Civ. A. No. 75-297-P.

423 F.Supp. 384 (1976)

Wiley L. BOLDEN et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF MOBILE, ALABAMA, et al., Defendants.

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

As Amended October 28, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

C. B. Arendall, Jr. and David A. Bagwell, S. R. Sheppard, City of Mobile Legal Department, Mobile, Ala., for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

PITTMAN, Chief Judge.

This action is brought by Wiley L. Bolden and other black plaintiffs representing all Mobile, Alabama, blacks as a class, claiming the present at-large system of electing city commissioners abridges the rights of the city's black citizens under the First, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States; under the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983; and under the...

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