U.S. v. DALLAS COUNTY COM'N, DALLAS COUNTY, ALA.

No. 87-7459.

850 F.2d 1430 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, Samson Crum, Sr., Edwin Moss, Frederick D. Reese, Clarence Williams, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Movants-Appellants, v. DALLAS COUNTY COMMISSION, DALLAS COUNTY, ALA.; Jones, John W., Jr., Chairman; Deans E. Barber, Jr., William H. Kendrick, C. Stanley Baldwin, James S. Wilkinson, Members, Earl Goodwin, Chairman of the Dallas County Democratic Executive Committee and John J. Grimes, Chairman of the Dallas County Republican Executive Committee, Defendants-Appellees, Dallas County Board of Education, et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied July 13, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marie Klimesz McElderry, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Jessica Dunsay Silver, Wm. Bradford Reynolds, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, D.C. for U.S.

Larry T. Menefee, James U. Blacksher, Birmingham, Ala., Neil Bradley, American Civil Liberties Union, Laughlin McDonald, Atlanta, Ga., for intervenors-appellants Crum, Moss, Reese, William, et al.

John E. Pilcher, Pilcher & Pilcher, P.C., Selma, Ala., for Dallas Co. Bd. of Educ., Grimes, Martin, Bozeman, Ralston and Bradford.

Cartledge W. Blackwell, Jr., Blackwell & Keith, Selma, Ala., J. Garrison Thompson, Pitts, Pitts & Thompson, Selma, Ala., for Dallas Co. Comm., Dallas Co., Ala., Jones, Barber, Kendrick, Baldwin and Wilkinson.

Before HILL and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied July 13, 1988.

HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is a companion case to United States v. Dallas County Commission, No. 87-7766, 850 F.2d 1433 (11th Cir.1988). In No. 87-7766, we held that the district court's remedial plan for election of members to the Dallas County Board of Education does not comply with section 2 et seq. of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U...

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