HEGGINS v. CITY OF DALLAS, TEX.

Civ. A. No. CA 3-79-118-E.

469 F.Supp. 739 (1979)

Elsie Faye HEGGINS, J. B. Jackson, Lovie Lipscomb, Shirley Harvey, Lola Brown, J. R. Brown and Mary J. Body v. CITY OF DALLAS, TEXAS, Robert Folsom, Mayor, George Schrader, City Manager and Robert Sloan, City Secretary of the City of Dallas.

United States District Court, N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

Memorandum Opinion February 22, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth K. Julian, Dallas Legal Services Foundation, Inc., James A. Johnston, Johnston & Larson, Edward B. Cloutman, III, Mullinax, Wells, Baab, Cloutman & Chapman, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Joseph G. Werner, Asst. City Atty., Dallas, Tex., for defendants.

Before GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge, and MAHON and HILL, District Judges.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

Plaintiffs bring this action for injunction under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.1 A three-judge court was convened, and a hearing was held February 16, 1979. After carefully considering the evidence and the arguments of counsel, the Court has determined that the City of Dallas may not conduct city council elections until the city's election plan has received the...

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