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PORTER v. FREEMAN

No. 76-2652.

577 F.2d 329 (1978)

Ella PORTER, Bertha Dickerson, Betty Jean Twyman, Katie Kelly and Maggie Welch Taylor, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. James F. FREEMAN, Royce Faulkner and Hoyt Strong, Individually and as members of the Jury Commissioners of Talladega County, Alabama, and their successors in office, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 31, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph I. Knowles, University, Ala., Laughlin McDonald, Neil Bradley, Atlanta, Ga., Melvin L. Wulf, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Ralph D. Gaines, Jr., Talladega, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, THORNBERRY and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

A class of black, female citizens filed suit on August 5, 1974, alleging discrimination on the basis of race and sex in the composition of the jury roll and box in Talladega County, Alabama.1 At the time of filing, women constituted 53.8% of the county population of an age to serve on a jury, but made up only 33.4% of the names on the jury roll—a differential of 20.4 percentage points. By December 1975...

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