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CITY OF PLEASANT GROVE v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 80-2589.

623 F.Supp. 782 (1985)

CITY OF PLEASANT GROVE, Plaintiff, v. The UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

October 25, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas G. Corcoran, Jr., Donald J. Cronin, Corcoran, Youngman & Rowe, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff; Thomas N. Crawford, Jr., Cooper, Mitch & Crawford, of counsel, Birmingham, Ala.

Gerald W. Jones, Paul F. Hancock, Jeremy I. Schwartz, John K. Tanner, Voting Section, Civil Rights Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant.

Before MacKINNON, Senior Circuit Judge, AUBREY E. ROBINSON, Jr., and HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judges.

OPINION

HAROLD H. GREENE, District Judge.

On October 9, 1980, the City of Pleasant Grove, a community in Jefferson County, Alabama, brought this action under section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1973c, seeking a declaration that the annexation by the city of the so-called "Western Addition" did not have the purpose or effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color. In March 1982, plaintiff moved for summary...

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