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GREENE COUNTY RACING COM'N v. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM

No. CV-91-N-1930-S.

772 F.Supp. 1207 (1991)

The GREENE COUNTY RACING COMMISSION, et al., Plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, S.D.

August 26, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rose Mary Sanders, Carlos A Williams, Chestnut Sanders Sanders Williams & Pettaway, Selma, Ala., John H England, Jr., England & Bivens P.C., Tuscaloosa, Ala., for plaintiffs.

Tony Cooper, pro se.

James K Baker, William M Slaughter, James C Huckaby, Jr., Haskell Slaughter Young & Johnston, Birmingham, Ala., Fred D Gray, Gray Langford Sapp McGowan & Gray, Tuskegee, Ala., for defendants.

Before DUBINA, Circuit Judge and PROPST and NELSON, District Judges.

EDWIN L. NELSON, District Judge:

I. Statement of the Case.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1973, et seq., (the Voting Rights Act) prohibits any state or political subdivision of a state from imposing or applying any "qualification or prerequisite to voting or standard, practice, or procedure ... which results in a denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen ... to vote on account of race or color." 42 U.S.C. § 1973.

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