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COUSIN v. McWHERTER

No. CIV-1-90-339.

840 F.Supp. 1210 (1994)

Maxine B. COUSIN, et al. v. Ned McWHERTER, et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, at Chattanooga.

January 13, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myron B. McClary, Chattanooga, TN, Margaret Carey, Wanda Turner-Lee, Greenville, MS, Laughlin McDonald, Neil Bradley, Kathleen L. Wilde, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Atlanta, GA, Richard Dinkins, Williams & Dinkins, Nashville, TN, for plaintiffs.

Michael W. Catalano, State of Tenn., Office of the Atty. Gen., Nashville, TN, for defendants McWherter, Tennessee Election Com'n, Burns and Conrad.

T. Maxfield Bahner, Gary David Lander, Michael J. Mahn, Chambliss & Bahner, Chattanooga, TN, for Hamilton County.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HULL, District Judge.

Plaintiffs have brought this action alleging violations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973 and the fifteenth amendment of the United States Constitution. Plaintiffs are black adult residents and voters in Hamilton County, Tennessee.

Plaintiffs instituted this action on August 31, 1990. Plaintiffs allege that Hamilton County's use of at-large elections for judges of the Eleventh...

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