BURT v. ABEL

Civ. A. No. 72-537.

466 F.Supp. 1234 (1979)

Reverend P. P. BURT, etc., Plaintiff, v. C. Ashley ABEL, etc., et al., Defendants.

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

February 22, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laughlin McDonald, Atlanta, Ga., Herbert E. Buhl, III, Columbia, S. C., for plaintiff.

W. Ray Berry, Columbia, S. C., J. Roy Berry, Johnston, S. C., for defendants.


BLATT, District Judge.

This elastic action, commenced over six (6) years ago under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, has rebounded for a second time from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and it is again before this court for further proceedings. As in the late stages of a hotly contested athletic event, the party behind on the score board has changed strategy in an attempt to avoid almost certain defeat. A brief history of the convoluted course of this litigation will illuminate...

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