WOODS v. HAMILTON

Civ. A. Nos. 78-873, 78-905.

473 F.Supp. 641 (1979)

Robert R. WOODS, McKinley Washington, Jerry Williams, and Omega Newman, Individually and as Representatives of a class of registered electors of Charleston County, S. C., who oppose the present method of electing persons to County Council in the said County and State, Plaintiffs, v. Lonnie HAMILTON, III, James A. Stuckey Jr., George G. Durst, Robert N. King, Aaron A. Nettles, Jr., Gordan B. Stine, Milton A. Carson, Edgar A. Buck, and Marjorie R. Amos, all members of County Council, Charleston, S. C., Donald L. Infinger, Helen E. Clawson, Curtis Inabinett, Solomon Morse, Jr., and Robert O. Lighthart, Jr., all members of the County Election Commission, Charleston, S. C., Edwin Guenther, Inez A. Simpson, Jeanette B. Baxley, Gertrude D. Brown, Helen L. Hutchinson, all members of the County Board of Voter Registration, Charleston, S. C., County Democratic Executive Committee, Charleston, S. C., and County Republican Executive Committee, Charleston, S. C., Defendants. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. The COUNTY COUNCIL OF CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, Lonnie Hamilton, III, James A. Stuckey, Jr., George G. Durst, Robert N. King, Aaron A. Nettles, Jr., Gordan B. Stine, Milton A. Carson, Edgar A. Buck, and Marjorie R. Amos, Members; Charleston County Election Commission, Donald Infinger, Chairman, Charleston County Democratic Party, Cecil D. Clary, Chairman, Charleston County Republican Party, Glenn McConnell, Chairman, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Charleston Division.

July 3, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wheeler M. Tillman, Charleston Heights, S. C., for plaintiffs.

Randall T. Bell, Columbia, S. C., Ben Scott Whaley, Ann C. Osborne, Leonard L. Long, Jr., Joseph S. Mendelsohn, Charleston, S. C., Glenn F. McConnell, North Charleston, S. C., for defendants.

Harvey B. Knudson, Jr., Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff in 78-905.

Before RUSSELL, Circuit Judge, and CHAPMAN and BLATT, District Judges.


ORDER

These § 5 voting rights cases1 are before this court based on plaintiffs' complaints asking this court to enjoin enforcement of Ordinances # 223 and # 224 of August 3, 1976, and a Resolution of July 6, 1976,2 which implement "Home Rule" in Charleston County. Plaintiffs contend that these enactments constitute changes "with respect to voting" to which the Attorney General has objected in the exercise...

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