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HENDRIX v. McKINNEY

Civ. A. No. 74-264-N.

460 F.Supp. 626 (1978)

T. J. HENDRIX, George Walker, Johnie Mabry, L. D. Chapman, Willie Tuggle, Joe Artis, Rebecca Urquhart, and Catherine Harris, Individually and for all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. H. B. McKINNEY, Individually and in his official capacity as Chairman of the Montgomery County Commission, William F. Joseph, Jr., Nancy Cox, Mack McWhorter, and Cleavy T. Johnson, Individually and in their official capacities as members of the Montgomery County Commission, Montgomery County Commission, Walker Hobbie, Jr., Individually and in his official capacity as Probate Judge of Montgomery County, William Baxley, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the State of Alabama, Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Alabama, N. D.

November 15, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Carroll, Morris S. Dees, and Howard A. Mandell, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Jack Crenshaw, Crenshaw & Minor, and Mark Anderson, Montgomery, Ala., the Montgomery County defendants.

William J. Baxley, pro se, and Samuel A. Beatty and Winston T. Lett, Asst. Attys. Gen., State of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala., for Baxley.

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

JOHNSON, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs, for themselves and as representatives of all blacks eligible to vote in Montgomery County, complain that the at-large election system for members of the Montgomery County Commission unconstitutionally dilutes the black vote. Defendants are the county commissioners, Montgomery County Probate Judge Walker Hobbie, Jr., and State Attorney General William Baxley. All are sued in both their...

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