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EDGE v. SUMTER COUNTY SCHOOL DIST.

Civ. A. No. 80-20-AMER.

541 F.Supp. 55 (1981)

Judson EDGE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. SUMTER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Georgia, Americus Division.

December 1, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Head, Willie Abrams, Columbus, Ga., Lois R. Goodman, Laughlin McDonald, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

George M. Peagler, Jr., Ellis, Easterlin & Peagler, Americus, Ga., for Sue R. Smith.

W. Warren Plowden, Jr., Jones, Cork, Miller & Benton, Macon, Ga., Henry L. Crisp, Crisp, Oxford & Gatewood, Americus, Ga., for defendants.

Before ANDERSON, Circuit Judge, and OWENS and ELLIOTT, District Judges.

OPINION AND ORDER

This is an action by black residents of Sumter County, Georgia, by which they seek declaratory and injunctive relief so as to abolish the at-large method of election of members of the Board of the Sumter County School District and the adoption or imposition of a new plan of fairly-apportioned districts for the election of Board members. The Plaintiffs base their claim for relief on the failure of the District to obtain preclearance pursuant to...

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