MAJOR v. TREEN

Civ. A. No. 82-1192.

574 F.Supp. 325 (1983)

Barbara MAJOR, et al., Plaintiffs, v. David C. TREEN, etc., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

September 23, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. James Kellogg, William I. Quigley, Lani Guinier, Stanley A. Halpin, Steven Scheckman, New Orleans, La., Jack Greenberg, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Martin L. C. Feldman, New Orleans, La., David R. Paynter, Baton Rouge, La., for defendant Treen.

William Guste, Jr., Ronald C. Davis, Robert Kutcher, New Orleans, La., Kenneth C. Dejean, Baton Rouge, La., for other defendants.

Before POLITZ, Circuit Judge, and CASSIBRY and COLLINS, District Judges.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

Individually and on behalf of all black persons residing and registered to vote in Louisiana, plaintiffs Barbara Major, Michael Darnell, Bernadine St. Cyr, Brenda Quant and Annie A. Smart brought suit under the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, § 2 of the Voting Rights Act, as...

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