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DILLARD v. BALDWIN COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

Civ. A. No. 87-T-1158-N.

686 F.Supp. 1459 (1988)

John DILLARD, et al., Plaintiffs, v. BALDWIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, Defendant.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, N.D.

April 8, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James U. Blacksher, Mobile, Ala., Larry Menefee, Edward Still, Reeves & Still, Birmingham, Ala., Julius L. Chambers, Lani Guinier, Pamela Karlan, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Abram L. Philips, Jr., Reams, Vollmer, Philips, Killon, Brooks & Schell, Mobile, Ala., Norborne C. Stone, Jr., Blackburn, Stone, Granade, Crosby & Blackburn, Bay Minette, Ala., Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., Susan Russ, Asst. Atty. Gen., David Boyd, Balch & Bingham, Montgomery, Ala., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

This lawsuit is a challenge to the at-large system used to elect members of the Baldwin County Board of Education. This case is one among many, now pending in this court, challenging the at-large election systems and various features of those systems used by many cities, counties, and county school boards across Alabama. Here the plaintiff class, which includes all black citizens of Baldwin County, charges...

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