STATE EX REL. MOORE v. MOLPUS

No. 90-CA-696.

578 So.2d 624 (1991)

The STATE of Mississippi, ex rel. Michael C. MOORE, Attorney General of the State of Mississippi; Raymond Vecchio, Oliver E. Diaz, Jr., and Others Similarly Situated, v. Dick MOLPUS, Secretary of State of the State of Mississippi.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 3, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mike C. Moore, Atty. Gen., Stephen J. Kirchmayr, Jr., Deputy Atty., and Wilson A. Carroll, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellants.

John C. Henegan, W. Wayne Drinkwater, Jr., J. Cal Mayo, Jr., Butler Snow O'Mara Stevens & Cannada, Constance Slaughter-Harvey, Reese J. Partridge, and Brian Wayne Wells, Office of Secretary of State, Jackson, for appellee.

En banc.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

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