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BURTON v. HOBBIE

Civ. A. No. 81-617-N.

561 F.Supp. 1029 (1983)

William L. BURTON, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Walker HOBBIE, Jr., etc., et al., Defendants, Charles A. Graddick, Attorney General for the State of Alabama, Defendant-Intervenor.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, N.D.

April 11, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James U. Blacksher and Larry T. Menefee, Blacksher, Menefee & Stein, Mobile, Ala., Solomon Seay, Gray, Seay & Langford, Montgomery, Ala., and W. Edward Still, Reeves & Still, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., State of Ala., Montgomery, Ala., Thomas W. Thagard, Jr., and David R. Boyd, Smith, Bowman, Thagard, Crook & Culpepper, Montgomery, Ala., and Lee L. Hale, Mobile, Ala., for defendant Hobbie and intervening defendant.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and Linda C. Breland, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Ala., Montgomery, Ala., for defendant Siegelman.

Before JOHNSON, Circuit Judge, and HOBBS and THOMPSON, District Judges.

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

The day may have now arrived to which the late Judge Richard T. Rives referred when expressing his feelings and the feelings of many of us in Dent v. Duncan, 360 F.2d 333 (5th Cir.1966):

I look forward to the day when the State and its political subdivisions will again take up their mantle of responsibility, treating all of their citizens equally, and thereby relieve the federal Government of...

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