McCONNELL v. ADAMS

Nos. 86-1507, 86-1604 to 86-1611, 86-1619, 86-1620 and 86-3011.

829 F.2d 1319 (1987)

Doris McCONNELL, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Willie B. Kilgore, Plaintiff, v. Roger ADAMS; Evelyn Bacon, Defendant-Appellant, Scott County, VA., Amicus Curiae, and Susan H. Fitz-Hugh; Katherine Jones McClelland; Faye Owens; Charles Herman Stallard; Glenda Clark Duncan; Judy Carroll; Phillip Lee Cheek; Lee County, Virginia, Defendant. Doris McCONNELL, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Willie B. Kilgore, Plaintiff, v. Roger ADAMS; Evelyn Bacon, Defendant-Appellant, Scott County, VA., Amicus Curiae, and Susan H. Fitz-Hugh; Katherine Jones McClelland; Faye Owens; Charles Herman Stallard; Glenda Clark Duncan; Judy Carroll; Phillip Lee Cheek; Lee County, Virginia; Commonwealth of Virginia, ex rel. State Board of Elections, Defendant. Willie B. KILGORE; Doris McConnell, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Katherine Jones McCLELLAND; Faye Owens, Defendant-Appellant, Scott County, VA., Amicus Curiae, and Roger Adams; Evelyn Bacon; Susan H. Fitz-Hugh; Charles Herman Stallard; Glenda Clark Duncan; Judy Carroll; Phillip Lee Cheek; Lee County, Virginia; Commonwealth of Virginia, ex rel. State Board of Elections, Defendant. Katherine Jones McCLELLAND; Faye Owens, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. COMPASS INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant and Republic Insurance Company; Commonwealth of Virginia, ex rel. State Board of Elections, Defendant. Willie B. KILGORE; Doris McConnell; Patsy Burchett; Katherine Jones McClelland; Faye Owens, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, ex rel. STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, Defendant-Appellant. Katherine Jones McCLELLAND; Faye Owens, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. REPUBLIC INSURANCE COMPANY; Compass Insurance Company Commonwealth of Virginia, State Board of Elections, Defendant-Appellee. Doris McCONNELL, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Willie B. Kilgore, Plaintiff, v. COMPASS INSURANCE COMPANY, Party in Interest-Appellant, Scott County, VA., Amicus Curiae, and Roger Adams; Evelyn Bacon; Susan H. Fitz-Hugh; Katherine Jones McClelland; Faye Owens; Charles Herman Stallard; Glenda Clark Duncan; Judy Carroll; Phillip Lee Cheek; Lee County, Virginia; Commonwealth of Virginia, ex rel. State Board of Elections, Defendant. Willie B. KILGORE, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Doris McConnell, Plaintiff, v. COMPASS INSURANCE COMPANY, Party in Interest-Appellant, Scott County, VA., Amicus Curiae, and Roger Adams; Evelyn Bacon; Susan H. Fitz-Hugh; Katherine Jones McClelland; Faye Owens; Charles Herman Stallard; Glenda Clark Duncan; Judy Carroll; Phillip Lee Cheek; Lee County, Virginia; Commonwealth of Virginia, ex rel. State Board of Elections, Defendant. Willie B. KILGORE; Doris McConnell; Patsy Burchett, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Roger ADAMS; Evelyn Bacon; Katherine Jones McClelland; Faye Owens; Charles Herman Stallard; Phillip Lee Cheek; Lee County, Virginia; Commonwealth of Virginia, ex rel. State Board of Elections; Republic Insurance Company; Compass Insurance Company, Defendant-Appellee, Scott County, VA., Amicus Curiae, and Susan H. Fitz-Hugh; Glenda Clark Duncan; Judy Carroll, Defendant. Patsy BURCHETT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Phillip Lee CHEEK, Defendant-Appellant, and Susan H. Fitz-Hugh; Lee County, Virginia, Defendant (Two Cases). Patsy BURCHETT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. COMPASS INSURANCE COMPANY, Party in Interest-Appellant, and Susan H. Fitz-Hugh; Phillip Lee Cheek; Lee County, Virginia, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 1, 1987.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied November 19, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory E. Lucyk, Asst. Atty. Gen., Deborah Wood Brattain (Gary C. Hancock, Thomas J. McCarthy, Gilmer, Sadler, Ingram, Sutherland and Hutton on brief), Larry B. Kirksey (Woodward, Miles & Flanagan, P.C. on brief), James Jones (Penn, Stuart, Eskridge & Jones, Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen. of Va., Gail Starling Marshall, Deputy Atty. Gen., Henry Keuling-Stout, Florence Powell, Mullins, Keuling-Stout, Thomason & Harris, C. Dean Foster, Jr., Co. Atty., on brief), for defendants-appellants; William Henry Hurd (Bryant, Hurd & Porter, on brief).

Cynthia D. Kinser (Joseph E. Wolfe, Jerry W. Kilgore, Terry G. Kilgore, Wolfe & Farmer, on brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before RUSSELL and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied November 19, 1987.

BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge:

This consolidated appeal concerns judgments for damages and injunctive relief entered against county electoral board members and a general county registrar. These appellants failed to reappoint two registrars and an assistant registrar, appellees, due to their political affiliations. This appeal also concerns the district court's order that the Commonwealth of Virginia...

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