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DILLARD v. CRENSHAW COUNTY, ALA.

No. 86-7799.

831 F.2d 246 (1987)

John DILLARD, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CRENSHAW COUNTY, ALABAMA, etc., Defendants, Calhoun County, Alabama qua County, Arthur C. Murray, in his official capacity as Probate Judge, R. Forrest Dobbins, in his official capacity as Circuit Clerk, Roy C. Snead, Jr., in his official capacity as Sheriff of Calhoun County, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

November 2, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert D. Jones, Jr., Burnham, Klinefelter, Halsey, Jones & Cater, P.C., Anniston, Ala., for Calhoun Co. and Snead, Dobbins and Murray.

William Bradford Reynolds, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jessica Dunsay Silver, Irving Gornstein, Steven H. Rosenbaum, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae.

Larry T. Menefee, James U. Blacksher, Blacksher, Menefee & Stein, P.A., Mobile, Ala., Edward Still, Birmingham, Ala., for Dillard, et al.

Before JOHNSON and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and EATON, Senior District Judge.

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

This case is about the Calhoun County Commission and whether an at-large chairperson would violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965, in particular Section 2 as amended in 1982.1 Plaintiffs in this case originally brought suit against nine county governments in Alabama.2 Six of the counties reached full settlement by the time of the district court's final order. The United States District...

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