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KIRKSEY v. CITY OF JACKSON, MISS.

Civ. A. No. J77-0075(N).

461 F.Supp. 1282 (1978)

Henry J. KIRKSEY, Fred L. Banks, Jr., Carsie A. Hall, Henrene Matthews, Herman "Tex" Wilson, Shawn Knox, Malcolm T. Shepherd, Ricky L. Taylor, Annie K. Ward, Irene Shepherd, Rubie J. Tobias, Fannye B. White, Roy Milton Shelby, Monzell Stowers, Perthean Toins, Reverend Horace L. Buckley, and Douglas L. Anderson, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, Russell C. Davis, Mayor, Thomas B. Kelly, Commissioner, and Douglas W. Shanks, Commissioner, Individually and in their official capacities as members of the City Council of the City of Jackson, City of Jackson Municipal Democratic Executive Committee, R. E. Wooley, Chairman of the City Democratic Executive Committee, City of Jackson Municipal Election Commission, Edmund Johnston, Jr., Mrs. Bernice Denmark, and Albert P. Dillon, members of the City Election Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

August 28, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank R. Parker, Michael A. Middleton, Thomas J. Ginger, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs.

Joseph P. Wise, Thomas G. Lilly, John E. Stone, City Atty., Jackson, Miss., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

NIXON, District Judge.

This Memorandum Opinion shall constitute this Court's specific findings of fact and conclusions of law required by Rule 52, F.R.Civ.P. and mandated by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in its opinion of March 29, 1978, in the four consolidated voting dilution cases of Nevett v. Sides, 571 F.2d 209 (5th Cir...

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