HARRIS v. GRADDICK

Civ. A. No. 84-T-595-N.

601 F.Supp. 70 (1984)

Charlie HARRIS and Mose Batie, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Charles A. GRADDICK, in his official capacity as Attorney General of Alabama; et al., Defendants, John W. Jones, Jr., as Judge of Probate of Dallas County, Alabama; et al., Defendant-Intervenors.

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

December 13, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James U. Blacksher, Larry T. Menefee, Blacksher, Menefee & Stein, Mobile, Ala., Delores Boyd, Mandell & Boyd, Terry Davis, Montgomery, Ala., Jack Greenberg, Lani Guinier, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Joseph E. Faulk, Troy, Ala., for Powell and Anderson.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., Susan McKinney, Algert S. Agricola, James Callen Sparrow, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for Stone, Graddick & Wallace.

Edward Still, Birmingham, Ala., for State Democratic Exec. Committee.

Edwin A. Strickland, R. Clifford Fulford and Max C. Pope, Fulford, Pope & Natter, Birmingham, Ala., for Jefferson County— Probate Judge, Circuit Clerk & Sheriff.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

On August 1, 1984, the court issued a preliminary injunction in this cause requiring that the appointing authorities for all but one of Alabama's 67 counties appoint more black persons as poll officials for all primary, general and special elections. Harris v. Graddick, 593 F.Supp. 128 (M.D. Ala.1984). The cause is now again before the court on the appointing...

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