DOTSON v. CITY OF INDIANOLA, MISS.

No. GC 80-220-WK-O.

521 F.Supp. 934 (1981)

Nelson DOTSON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF INDIANOLA, MISSISSIPPI, et al., Defendants.

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

September 2, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Victor McTeer, Greenville, Miss., Sidney R. Bixler, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

W. Dean Belk, Indianola, Miss., James L. Robertson, Oxford, Miss., for defendants.

Before CHARLES CLARK, Circuit Judge, KEADY, Chief District Judge, and SENTER, District Judge.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

KEADY, Chief District Judge:

On May 13, 1981, this three-judge court determined that the legal boundary lines of the City of Indianola, Mississippi, were, for the purpose of conducting municipal elections, those in force and effect prior to November 1, 1964, until such time as annexations made subsequent to that date were properly precleared in accordance with Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as amended, 42 U.S.C. §...

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