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MARTIN v. ALLAIN

Civ. A. Nos. J-84-0708(B), J-85-0960(B).

658 F.Supp. 1183 (1987)

Floydist James MARTIN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. William A. ALLAIN, Governor of Mississippi, et al., Defendants. Henry KIRKSEY, et al, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. William A. ALLAIN, Governor of Mississippi, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

April 1, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellis Turnage, Morris & Turnage, Cleveland, Miss., Julius L. Chambers (pro hac vice), James M. Nabrit, III, Deborah Fins, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New York City, Robert B. McDuff, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., Pamela S. Karlan (pro hac vice), NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York City, for plaintiffs.

Carroll Rhodes, Hazlehurst, Miss., William L. Robinson, Frank R. Parker, Samuel Issacharoff, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., Johnnie L. Walls, Jr., Walls, Buck and Irving, Greenville, Miss., for Kirksey, et al., plaintiffs.

James Craig, Jackson, Miss., for Hinds Co. Democratic Executive Comm.

Charles H. Evans, Dyre & Evans, Jackson, Miss., for Hinds County Repub. Ex. Comm.

Stephen J. Kirchmayr, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for State defendants.

Hubbard T. Saunders, IV, Crosthwait, Terney & Noble, Jackson, Miss., for State defendants and Yazoo County Election Comm.

Haley Barbour, Wiley J. Barbour, Henry, Barbour & Decell, Yazoo City, Miss., for Yazoo County Republican Exec. Comm.

BARBOUR, District Judge.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

Invoking the court's federal question and civil rights subject matter jurisdiction, the named Martin and Kirksey plaintiffs, black citizens and registered voters of the State of Mississippi, bring these two consolidated voting rights actions individually and on behalf of two Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 23(b)(2) plaintiff classes previously defined by the court in its order of March...

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