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WARD v. COLUMBUS COUNTY, N.C.

No. 90-20-CIV-7-BR.

782 F.Supp. 1097 (1991)

Charles R. WARD, et al., Plaintiffs, v. COLUMBUS COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, et al., Defendants, and Helen Gamble, et al., Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. North Carolina, Wilmington Division.

December 17, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anita Sue Hodgkiss, Leslie J. Winner, Ferguson, Stein, Watt, Wallas & Adkins, Charlotte, N.C., James J. Wall, Legal Services of Lower Cape Fear, Wilmington, N.C., for plaintiffs.

James Earl Hill, Jr., Whiteville, N.C., Michael Crowell, Tharrington, Smith & Hargrove, Raleigh, N.C., for defendants.

Ottis Richard Wright, Jr., Tabor City, N.C., for intervening defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BRITT, District Judge.

This is a suit in which the current method of electing members to the Board of County Commissioners in Columbus County, North Carolina is challenged by plaintiffs as a violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1973. There are five members on the present board, elected at large from residency districts. Plaintiffs contend that this method of election, combined...

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