Hollis WATKINS, et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
Kirk FORDICE, Governor of the State of Mississippi, Mike Moore, Attorney General of the State of Mississippi, and Dick Molpus, Secretary of State of the State of Mississippi, Members of the State Board of Election Commissioners; Mississippi Democratic Party Executive Committee; and Mississippi Republican Party Executive Committee, Defendants,
the Standing Joint Legislative Committee on Reapportionment of the Mississippi Legislature; Tim Ford, In His Official Capacity As Speaker Of The Mississippi House Of Representatives; and Ollie Mohamed, In His Official Capacity As President Pro Tempore Of The Mississippi Senate, Intervenors Defendants.
United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
May 21, 1992.
May 21, 1992.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Carroll Rhodes, Hazlehurst, Miss., John L. Walker, Tomie Green, Jackson, Miss., Wilbur O. Colom, Columbus, Miss., Deborah McDonald, Fayette, Miss., for plaintiffs.
John R. Dunne, Gerald W. Jones, Attys., Voting Section, Civ. Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae U.S.
Jim Warren, Waycaster & Warren, Jackson, Miss., for Miss. Democratic Party Executive Committee.
Michael B. Wallace, Phelps Dunbar, Jackson, Miss., for Miss. Republican Party Executive Committee.
John Reeves, Jackson, Miss., for House Standing Committee.
Daniel E. Lynn, Asst. U.S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., amicus curiae.
Stephen J. Kirchmayr, Giles W. Bryant, Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for Governor and State of Miss.
Bill Allain, Hubbard T. Saunders, IV, Champ Terney, Jackson, Miss., for intervenors.
William Harold Jones, Petal, Miss., for Standing Committee Miss. House of Representatives and Frances Savage.
J. Dewayne Thomas, Jackson, Miss., Oliver G. Diaz, Jr., Biloxi, Miss., Thomas Upton Reynolds, II, Charleston, Miss., Standing Committee Representatives.
Before BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge, and TOM S. LEE and PICKERING, District Judges.
United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.
OPINION AND ORDER
This opinion and order supplements our orders of April 30 and May 11, 1992, setting the schedule for the 1992 elections to the Mississippi Legislature.
Pursuant to our orders dated August 2, 8, and 30, 1991, the State of Mississippi conducted interim legislative elections in 1991 in accordance with its 1982 reapportionment plan, Miss.Code Ann. § 5-1-1 et seq. (1991). See Watkins...
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