CITIZENS' RIGHT TO VOTE v. MORGAN

Civil Action No. 2:95-CV-233(P)(S).

916 F.Supp. 601 (1996)

CITIZENS' RIGHT TO VOTE, an Association, Harold Naylor, Robert Cummings, A.A. Cervantes, III, Robert Ledford and Robert A. Nelson, Individually and as Directors of Citizens' Right to Vote, an Association, Richard S. Thomson, David N. Tullos, Joe Venus and Kathryn M. Jones, Plaintiffs, v. J. Ed MORGAN, in his official capacity as Mayor of the City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Charles Lawrence, President and member of the Council of the City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi; John Buckley and Eddie Holloway, in their official capacities as members of the Council of the City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Clarice Wansley, in her official capacity as Municipal Clerk of the City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi; City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, a Municipal Corporation; Andy Stetelman, in his official capacity as Chairman of the Hattiesburg Convention Commission, the Hattiesburg Convention Commission, an official Commission of the City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Hattiesburg Division.

February 12, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Barefield, Barefield & Barefield, Hattiesburg, MS, for Citizens' Right to Vote, Harold Naylor, Robert Cummings, A.A. Cervantes, III, Robert Ledford, Robert A. Nelson, Richard S. Thomson, David N. Tullos, Joe Venus, Kathryn M. Jones.

Jerry A. Evans, Hattiesburg, MS, for J. Ed Morgan, Charles Lawrence, John Buckley, Eddie Holloway, Clarice Wansley, City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Brian A. Montague, Frank D. Montague, Jr., Montague, Pittman & Varnado, Hattiesburg, MS, for Andy Stetelman, Hattiesburg Convention Commission.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PICKERING, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on Defendants' Joint Motion to Dismiss pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) and 12(f). The Court, having reviewed the briefs of the parties and the authorities cited, and having heard oral arguments and being otherwise fully advised in the premises, finds as follows, to wit:

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