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MISSISSIPPI STATE CHAPTER, OPERATION PUSH v. MABUS

No. 89-4627.

932 F.2d 400 (1991)

MISSISSIPPI STATE CHAPTER, OPERATION PUSH, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, v. Ray MABUS, Governor of Mississippi, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 19, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank R. Parker, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellants, cross-appellees.

W.O. Luckett, Jr., Michael T. Lewis, Luckett Law Firm, Clarksdale, Miss., for Carter.

Hunt Cole, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Mike Moore, Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellees, cross-appellants.

Before POLITZ, WILLIAMS, and JONES, Circuit Judges.

JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

This case involves a challenge by black citizens to Mississippi's voter registration system. The plaintiffs alleged in the district court that Mississippi's dual registration system and prohibition on satellite registration violated the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1971 and 1983, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended 42 U.S.C. § 1973. Named defendants included...

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