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STATE OF MISS. v. SMITH

Civ. A. No. 82-0956.

541 F.Supp. 1329 (1982)

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, Plaintiff, v. William French SMITH, Defendant, Henry J. Kirksey, et al., Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

June 28, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerris Leonard, Kathleen Heenan, Washington, D. C., William A. Allain, Atty. Gen., Champ Terney, R. Scott Levanway, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiff.

Gerald W. Jones, Paul F. Hancock, Jeremy I. Schwartz, Robert S. Berman, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant Smith.

Frank R. Parker, William L. Robinson, Barbara Y. Phillips, Patricia M. Hanrahan, Washington, D. C., Robert Bruce McDuff, Memphis, Tenn., Johnnie E. Walls, Jr., Greenville, Miss., for intervening defendants Kirksey, et al.

Before WRIGHT, Circuit Judge, and GESELL, District Judge.

MEMORANDUM

The State of Mississippi has filed this action pursuant to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973c (1976), seeking a declaratory judgment that the 1981 reapportionment of the State's congressional districts (S.B. 2001) "does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color." Id. This matter is now before the Court after full argument on plaintiff's motion...

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