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PERKINS v. CITY OF WEST HELENA, ARK.

No. H C 78 44.

514 F.Supp. 770 (1981)

Reverend P. L. PERKINS, Phillips County Concerned Citizens, Sam Bennett, John Hamilton, Mrs. Lillie Mae Stevenson, Wilson Rodgers, Reverend Julius McGruder, Welton Davis, Reverend C. W. Gilcreast and Orta Bush, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF WEST HELENA, ARKANSAS, Mayor Jesse Porter, City Councilmen, Bob Teeter, Dick Cunningham, Tommie Dial, Charles Miles and Dwight Galloway, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Arkansas, E. D.

April 10, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. A. Hollingsworth, Perlesta A. Hollingsworth, P. A., Little Rock, Ark., for plaintiffs.

Ralph C. Murray, City Atty., West Helena, Ark., for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

OVERTON, District Judge.

This is a class action suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in which the plaintiffs1 seek to represent all black registered voters of the City of West Helena. It is contended that the city's election procedure which requires election of city council members on an "at large" basis violates the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment rights of...

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