Reverend P. L. PERKINS, Phillips County Concerned Citizens, Sam Bennett, John Hamilton, Mrs. Lillie Mae Stevens, Wilson Rodgers, Reverend Julius McGruder, Welton Davis, Reverend C. W. Gilcreast and Orta Bush, Appellants,
v.
CITY OF WEST HELENA, ARKANSAS, Mayor Jesse Porter; City Councilmen Bob Teeter, Dick Cunningham, Tommie Dial, Charles Miles and Dwight Galloway, Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Submitted November 12, 1981.
Decided April 13, 1982.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
William L. Robinson, Norman J. Chachkin, Lezli Baskerville, Lawyers' Committee for Civ. Rights Under Law, Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae.
Kaplan, Hollingsworth, Brewer & Bilheimer, P. A. Hollingsworth, Janet L. Pulliam, Little Rock, Ark., for appellants.
Ralph C. Murray, City Atty., West Helena, Ark., and Byron Freeland, Mitchell, Williams & Selig, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.
Steve Clark, Atty. Gen. by R. B. Friedlander, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for State of Ark.
Before HEANEY and McMILLIAN, Circuit Judges, and REGAN, Senior District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
HEANEY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs appeal from a decision of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, 514 F.Supp. 770, which held that the at-large system of electing aldermen in the City of West Helena, Arkansas, was neither adopted or maintained for the purpose of denying black citizens their rights under the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, or Section 2 of the...
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