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SMITH v. MEESE

No. 85-7625.

821 F.2d 1484 (1987)

Charles SMITH, Carol P. Zippert, Raymond Austin, Veselle Jackson, Walter Jackson, Carrie Fulghum, Marshal Beasley, Prince Arnold, and Rev. Matthew Barber, on Behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Edwin W. MEESE, III, Attorney General of the United States; William Bradford Reynolds, Acting Associate Attorney General; Stephen S. Trott, Assistant Attorney General; John C. Bell, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama; Frank W. Donaldson, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama; Jeff B. Sessions, III, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 30, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil Bradley, Laughlin McDonald, Atlanta, Ga., Ira A. Burnim, Children's Defense Fund, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellants.

William Kanter, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Michael Jay Singer, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before KRAVITCH and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and HENDERSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

CLARK, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiff-appellants in this case are nine black voters and elected officials who allege that the defendant-appellees, the Attorney General of the United States and other Department of Justice officials, "are engaged in a concerted and unlawful effort both to interfere with black citizens' associational and political activities in Alabama's `Black Belt' and to discourage them from exercising their right to vote, in violation of the First...

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