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UNITED STATES v. DALLAS COUNTY COM'N

No. 82-7362.

739 F.2d 1529 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DALLAS COUNTY COMMISSION, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Opinion on Denial of Rehearing October 22, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Bradford Reynolds, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jessica Silver, Irving Gornstein, Civil Rights Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Joe T. Pilcher, Jr., Selma, Ala., for Dallas Cty. Bd. of Educ., et al.

Cartledge W. Blackwell, Jr., Selma, Ala., for Dallas Cty., et al.

Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, RONEY and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

GODBOLD, Chief Judge:

This is a vote dilution case. It involves challenges to the at-large systems used to elect the Dallas County [Alabama] Commission and the Dallas County Board of Education. Plaintiff sued both the Dallas County Commission and the Board of Education under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments; the Civil Rights Act of 1870, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1971(a)(1) (1976); and § 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §...

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