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TISDALE v. SHEHEEN

No. 3:91-0807-0.

777 F.Supp. 1270 (1991)

Joe TISDALE, Veronica Cooper, John Wesley Adamson, Lizzie R. Brown, Joseph Gordon, Jacques C. Gordon, Arthur Tisdale, Jr. and B.J. Gordon, Jr., Plaintiffs, v. Robert J. SHEHEEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives in his Official Capacity and as Representative of the Membership of the South Carolina House of Representatives, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

Order July 5, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin E. Evans, Joseph D. Shine, Chief Deputy Attys. Gen., and Treva G. Ashworth, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbia, S.C., for defendant.

Helen Tyler McFadden, Kingstree, S.C., for plaintiffs.

Before WILKINS, Circuit Judge and PERRY and JOSEPH F. ANDERSON, Jr., District Judges.

ORDER

Former state legislator Benjamin J. Gordon, Jr. and seven individuals residing in Gordon's state house district seek a declaration that House Rule 3.12 adopted by the South Carolina House of Representatives, under which Gordon was suspended upon being indicted, and under which his seat was later declared vacant upon his conviction of federal criminal charges, was implemented without necessary preclearance pursuant to section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, 42...

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