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HARRIS v. GRADDICK

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

615 F.Supp. 239 (1985)

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.

July 19, 1985.

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.

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

ORDER

This statewide class action lawsuit challenging the practices for the appointment of poll officials in the State of Alabama as racially discriminatory is before the court on a May 2, 1985, motion to approve settlement filed by all parties except defendants Charles A. Graddick and George C. Wallace. For reasons that follow, the court concludes that the motion should be granted and the settlement approved.

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