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LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE v. CITY OF LITTLE ROCK

No. 80-1994.

661 F.2d 701 (1981)

LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE, Irma Brown, Jeffery Hawkins, Albert Porter and Dr. W. H. Townsend, Appellants, v. CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, Carleton McMullin, A. M. Keith, Jim Dailey, Dwight Linkous, Jim Wellons, Donald Mehlburger, Mike Castleman, Myra Jones, Webster Hubbell, John Langston, Byron Morse and Mahlon A. Martin, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided October 12, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hollingsworth & Associates, P.A., Little Rock, Ark., P. A. Hollingsworth, Little Rock, Ark., argued, Janet L. Pulliam, Little Rock, Ark., for appellants.

R. Jack Magruder, III, City Atty., City of Little Rock, House, Holmes & Jewell, P. A., Little Rock, Ark., Philip K. Lyon, Little Rock, Ark., argued, Stephen W. Jones, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

Before BRIGHT, HENLEY and ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

In this case, black citizens of Little Rock, Arkansas, seek to alter, on constitutional grounds, the method by which city voters select members of the municipal board of directors. At present, Little Rock citizens vote at large for members of the board of directors. Directors serve for staggered four-year terms (three are chosen at one election, and four are chosen at the subsequent election) but each must declare candidacy for the specific vacancy the...

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