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HAYWARD v. CLAY

No. 77-2028.

573 F.2d 187 (1978)

Marion HAYWARD, Delores Grant, Nancy Little, Lawrence M. Libater, J. Phillips Noble, Jr., and the City of Charleston, Appellees, v. Cecil D. CLAY, Henry E. Hollinshead, Clifton D. Green, Jr., Malcolm C. Hursey, Hiram C. Adams, James H. Lee, Sr., Charles M. Lanford, Mary R. Miller, Alfred Williams, Commissioners of the North Charleston Public Service District, North Charleston Public Service District, and Branford Heape, Appellants. James B. EDWARDS, Governor of the State of South Carolina, G. P. Callison, Ruben L. Gray, Zilla Hinton, Sylvia A. McCullough, and Margaret Townsend, Members of the South Carolina Election Commission, Donald Infinger, Robert Lighthart, Jr., Solomon Morse, Jr., Helen Clawson, Curtis Inabinett, Members of the Charleston County Election Commission, Defendants, v. Joseph P. RILEY, Jr., Mayor of the City of Charleston, J. Rutledge Young, Jr., Jerome Kinloch, Daniel L. Richardson, Hilda Hutchinson Jefferson, Arthur W. Christopher, Brenda C. Scott, Robert I. Ford, George A. Z. Johnson, Jr., Mary R. Ader, James B. Moore, Jr., W. L. Stephens, Jr., and Henry E. Grimball, Members of the City Council of the City of Charleston, Third-Party Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 29, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Jennings, Charleston Heights, S. C. (Goodstein & Jennings, Charleston Heights, S. C., on brief), for appellants.

Armand Derfner, Charleston, S. C. (Epstein, McClain & Derfner, William B. Regan, Corp. Counsel, Robert N. Rosen, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Charleston, S. C., on brief), for appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and BUTZNER and HALL, Circuit Judges.

BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:

The questions for decision are whether a South Carolina statute conditioning the holding of an annexation election upon a majority vote by the freeholders in the area to be annexed violates the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution, and whether the challenged portions of the statute are severable from the remainder. The district court found the challenged provisions unconstitutional and severable. We affirm.

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