U.S. v. JONES

No. 93-0745-B-M.

837 F.Supp. 1145 (1993)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. John W. JONES, Jr., et al., Defendants.

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

October 25, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Gerald Hebert, Steven H. Rosenbaum, Deanne E.B. Ross, Attys., Voting Section, Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, Edward J. Vulevich, Jr., Acting U.S. Atty., for plaintiff U.S.

Cartledge Blackwell, Selma, John E. Pilcher, Selma, AL, for defendants John W. Jones and W.D. Nichols.

J.L. Chestnut, Selma, AL, for defendant Curtis Williams.

John W. Kelly, William T. Faile, Philip Henry Pitts, Selma, AL, for John Lide.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BUTLER, District Judge.

In but another chapter in the continuing saga of the history of voting rights litigation emanating from Dallas County, a federal court is being asked to resolve a dispute that arose after a black candidate, the Rev. Curtis Williams, defeated the white candidate John Lide by 4 votes out of 4,534 cast in the November 3, 1992 general election for the District 2 seat on the Dallas County Commission. But this...

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