SEALS v. QUARTERLY COUNTY COURT, ETC.

No. 77-1110.

562 F.2d 390 (1977)

Rev. William SEALS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, v. The QUARTERLY COUNTY COURT OF MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, et al., Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

G. Philip Arnold, Ratner, Sugarmon, Lucas, Salky & Henderson, Memphis, Tenn., Robert A. Murphy, William E. Caldwell, Washington, D. C., Nathaniel R. Jones, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellees, cross-appellants.

Before EDWARDS, PECK and ENGEL, Circuit Judges.


EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

This is the third time this voting rights case has been before this court. (See Seals v. Quarterly County Court, 496 F.2d 76 (6th Cir. 1974), and 526 F.2d 216 (6th Cir. 1975)).

In our 1974 opinion, we described the original issues as follows:

This action was filed by a group of black citizens of Madison County, Tennessee, attacking a plan providing for...

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