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UNITED STATES v. MARENGO COUNTY COM'N

No. 81-7796.

731 F.2d 1546 (1984)

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

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

May 14, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joan A. Magagna, Asst. Atty. Gen., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Washington, D.C., Thomas H. Figures, Asst. U.S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., for U.S.

Hugh A. Lloyd, Demopolis, Ala., for Marengo County Bd. of Education.

Cartledge W. Blackwell, Jr., Selma, Ala., for Marengo County et al.

Before TJOFLAT and FAY, Circuit Judges, and WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judge.

WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judge:

In 1979 the district court held that the at-large system for electing the Marengo County, Alabama county commission and school board did not violate the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments; the Civil Rights Act of 1870, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1971(a) (1976); and section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (1976). Clark v. Marengo County, 1979, S.D.Ala., 469 F.Supp. 1150...

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