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ROBINSON v. STOVALL

No. 79-2588.

646 F.2d 1087 (1981)

Alfred "Skip" ROBINSON, President of the United League of Mississippi, and Donald Pack, President of the United League of Chickasaw County, the United League of Mississippi, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Richard STOVALL, Mayor of Okolona, Mississippi, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

June 5, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin O. Chambliss, Leonard McClellan, Oxford, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

John Sibley, Kenneth M. Burns, Okolona, Miss., George C. Cochran, for defendants-appellees.

Before WISDOM, POLITZ and SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

The issue in this case is whether the district court erred in dismissing this civil rights suit under the doctrine of equitable restraint announced in Younger v. Harris, 1971, 401 U.S. 37, 91 S.Ct. 746, 27 L.Ed.2d 669, and developed by its progeny. We hold that the dismissal was improper. We remand the case to allow the plaintiffs to pursue their suit. We affirm certain holdings of the district court.<...

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