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

No. 87-7766.

850 F.2d 1433 (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, ALABAMA, et al., Defendants, Dallas County Board of Education, John J. Grimes, Jr., William R. Martin, Harold Joe Bradford, Dr. Catherine Bozeman, Elton R. Ralston, 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.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied July 13, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry T. Menefee, Birmingham, Ala., Neil Bradley, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc., Atlanta, Ga., Marie Klimesz McElderry, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Jessica Dunsay Silver, Civil Rights Div., J. Gerald Hebert, U.S. Dept. of Justice, William Bradford Reynolds, Voting Section, Gerald W. Jones, Civil Rights Div., Paul F. Hancock, Washington, D.C., J.B. Sessions, U.S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., for plaintiff-appellant.

Cartledge W. Blackwell, Jr., Blackwell & Keith, Selma, Ala., for Dallas County Comn., et al.

John E. Pilcher, Pilcher & Pilcher, P.C., Selma, Ala., for Dallas County Bd. of Ed., et al.

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

Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied July 13, 1988.

HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

In this vote dilution suit, the United States appeals from a final judgment imposing a court-ordered election plan for the Dallas County Board of Education (School Board) (Alabama). The final judgment followed the district court's finding that the School Board's at-large electoral system impermissibly diluted black voting strength, in violation of section 2 et seq. of the Voting...

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