STATE OF S.C. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 83-3626.

585 F.Supp. 418 (1984)

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants, and The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, Inc., et al., Defendants-Intervenors.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

April 26, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terrell L. Glenn, McNair, Glenn, Konduros, Corley, Singletary, Porter & Dibble, Columbia, S.C., for plaintiff.

Paul F. Hancock, Dept. Justice Civil Rights Div., Voting Section, Washington, D.C., Margaret Ford, Asst. Gen. Counsel, NAACP, Brooklyn, N.Y., for defendants.

Before EDWARDS, Circuit Judge, and GESELL and JACKSON, District Judges.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

This case is now before the three-judge court upon motions by defendant United States and defendant-intervenor the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Inc. ("NAACP") to enjoin the State of South Carolina from implementing Act 257 of Acts and Joint Resolutions of South Carolina (1983) ("Act 257"), a state senate reapportionment plan which has not yet been precleared as required by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of...

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