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MARTIN v. MABUS

Civ. A. Nos. J84-0708(B), J85-0960(B).

700 F.Supp. 327 (1988)

Floydist James MARTIN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Ray MABUS, Governor of Mississippi, et al., Defendants. Henry KIRKSEY, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. Ray MABUS, Governor of Mississippi, et al., Defendants.

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

Order Clarifying Opinion October 11, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellis Turnage, Cleveland, Miss., Robert B. McDuff, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, Samuel Issacharoff, Washington, D.C., Johnnie L. Walls, Jr., Greenville, Miss., Julius L. Chambers, Pamela S. Karlan, NAACP Legal Defense & Educ. Fund, Inc., New York City, Carroll Rhodes, Hazlehurst, Miss., Lynda C. Robinson, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs.

John L. Maxey, Jackson, Miss., Landman Teller, Jr., Vicksburg, Miss., Stephen J. Kirchmayr, Asst. Atty. Gen., James Craig, Jackson, Miss., Stephen L. Thomas, Greenville, Miss., Charles H. Evans, Hubbard T. Saunders, IV, Jackson, Miss., Wiley J. Barbour, Yazoo City, Miss., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BARBOUR, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

This action is a Voting Rights Act claim by which the Plaintiffs challenged the system of electing circuit, chancery, and some county court judges in the State of Mississippi. The Plaintiffs alleged that the multi-member at-large system of electing judges in Mississippi diluted black voting strength and violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights

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