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MATTHEWS v. LEFLORE CTY. BD. OF ELECTION COM'RS

No. GC 75-151-S.

477 F.Supp. 885 (1979)

Fred D. MATTHEWS, David Jordan, James Moore, Alix H. Sanders, O. P. Lowe, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. LEFLORE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS, Margaret F. Regelman, Ruby Weirs, Gordon A. Teague, George H. Dulin, James E. Makamson, Members, County Board of Supervisors, Robert Lee Kyles, James D. Green, Hopson Gary, Ray Tribble, James M. Hooper, Jr., Members, Individually and in their Official Capacities, Leflore County Board of Education, Lee Watts, John E. Hughes, Jr., O. P. Lowe, James I. Lundy, Norman Pruiett, Members, Individually and in their Official Capacities, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

June 5, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alix H. Sanders, Greenwood, Miss., for plaintiffs.

Giles W. Bryant, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., James W. Burgoon, Jr., Fraiser, Burgoon, Henson & Abraham, Greenwood, Miss., for Board of Supervisors.

G. Hite McLean, Kimbrough, Kimbrough & McLean, Greenwood, Miss., for Board of Education.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

ORMA R. SMITH, District Judge.

The complaint in the action sub judice was filed October 29, 1976, by Fred D. Matthews, David Jordan, James Moore, Alix H. Sanders and O. P. Lowe, adult black citizens and qualified voters of Leflore County, Mississippi. Sanders, an attorney, appears as counsel for plaintiffs. Lowe, at the time, was a member of the Board of Education of Leflore County, and, as such member, was sued along with the other...

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