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U. S. v. BD. OF COM'RS OF COLLETON COUNTY

Civ. A. No. 78-903.

509 F.Supp. 1329 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. The BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF COLLETON COUNTY, South Carolina; Warren, Russell; Maxey, Gene; Baldwin, Billy; Strickland, Paul; and Fennell, Thomas, Members; Colleton County Election Commission, Carter, David L., Chairman, Defendants.

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

February 17, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meg Slocum, Asst. U. S. Atty., Columbia, S. C., for plaintiff.

Randall T. Bell, C. Tolbert Goolsby, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbia, S. C., for defendants.

Before RUSSELL, Circuit Judge, and CHAPMAN and BLATT, District Judges.

This action, originally filed in June of 1978, was brought by the Attorney General of the United States pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2201, and Sections 5 and 12(d) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1973c, 1973j(d), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the defendants concerning the implementation of certain "practice[s], or procedure[s] with respect to voting different from that in force or effect on November 1, 1968 ..." in...

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