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SHUFORD v. ALABAMA STATE BD. OF EDUC.

Civ. A. No. 89-T-196-N.

920 F.Supp. 1233 (1996)

Humphrey L. SHUFORD, et al., Plaintiffs, v. ALABAMA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division.

March 20, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry G. Davis, Amardo Wesley Pitters, Terry G. Davis, P.C., Montgomery, AL, Mark Englehart, Anita L. Kelly, Kenneth Lamar Thomas, Thomas, Means & Gillis, P.C., Montgomery, AL, for Humphrey L. Shuford.

James U. Blacksher, Birmingham, AL, Leslie Proll, Birmingham, AL, John C. Falkenberry, Sirote & Permutt, Birmingham, AL, Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuydendall & Whatley, Birmingham, AL, for Connie Johnson.

James U. Blacksher, Birmingham, AL, Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Andrew Clay Allen, Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuydendall & Whatley, Birmingham, AL, Rebecca H. Hunt, Haskell, Slaughter, Young, Johnston & Gallion, Birmingham, AL, for Karen Newton.

Terry G. Davis, Amardo Wesley Pitters, Montgomery, AL, Anita L. Kelly, Kenneth Lamar Thomas, Thomas, Means & Gillis, P.C., Montgomery, AL, for Kenneth A. Brackins.

Thomas T. Gallion, III, Haskell, Slaughter, Young, Johnston & Gallion, Montgomery, AL, Beverly Ann Poole Baker, Richard H. Walston, Rebecca H. Hunt, Michael K.K. Choy, Haskell, Slaughter, Young, Johnston & Gallion, Birmingham, AL, for Myra P. Davis and SHERYL B. THREATT.

Terry G. Davis, Amardo Wesley Pitters, Montgomery, AL, Willie Troy Massey, W. Troy Massey, P.C., Montgomery, AL, Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Montgomery, AL, Mark Englehart, Kenneth Lamar Thomas, Thomas, Means & Gillis, P.C., Montgomery, AL, for Thad C. McClammy and Ella Jones.

Edward M. George, Jeffery A. Foshee, Foshee & Associates, Montgomery, AL, J. Mason Davis, Sirote & Permutt, Birmingham, AL, J. Allen Schreiber, Gerald Alan Templeton, Catherine L. Hogewood, Lloyd, Schreiber, Gray & Gaines, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Anthony A. Joseph, Helen Kathryn Downs, Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Powell, Birmingham, AL, R. Scott Clark, Whiteside & Fitzpatrick, Birmingham, AL, Renee Culverhouse, Office of General Counsel, State of Alabama, Department of Postsecondary Education, Montgomery, AL, for Alabama State Board of Education and Fred Gainous.

Edward M. George, Jeffery A. Foshee, Foshee & Associates, Montgomery, AL, J. Mason Davis, Sirote & Permutt, Birmingham, AL, J. Allen Schreiber, Gerald Alan Templeton, Lloyd, Schreiber, Gray & Gaines, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Anthony A. Joseph, Helen Kathryn Downs, Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Powell, Birmingham, AL, for John M. Tyson, Jr., Stedman Shealy, Jr., Isabelle Thomasson, Spencer Bachus, Victor Poole, and Evelyn S. Pratt.

Edward M. George, Jeffery A. Foshee, Foshee & Associates, Montgomery, AL, J. Mason Davis, Sirote & Permutt, Birmingham, AL, J. Allen Schreiber, Gerald Alan Templeton, Catherine L. Hogewood, Lloyd, Schreiber, Gray & Gaines, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Anthony A. Joseph, Helen Kathryn Downs, Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Powell, Birmingham, AL, for Ethel Hall and Willie Paul.

Randall C. Morgan, Terry Alan Sides, Hill, Hill, Carter, Franco, Cole & Black, Montgomery, AL, J. Mason Davis, Sirote & Permutt, Birmingham, AL, J. Allen Schreiber, Lloyd, Schreiber, Gray & Gaines, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Malcom A. Jones.

Randall C. Morgan, Hill, Hill, Carter, Franco, Cole & Black, Montgomery, AL, Jeffery A. Foshee, Foshee & Associates, Montgomery, AL, J. Mason Davis, Sirote & Permutt, Birmingham, AL, J. Allen Schreiber, Gerald Alan Templeton, Catherine L. Hogewood, Lloyd, Schreiber, Gray & Gaines, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Larry McCoy, Northwest Shoals Community College, Bevill State Community College, Harold Wade.

Randall C. Morgan, Hill, Hill, Carter, Franco, Cole & Black, Montgomery, AL, Jeffery A. Foshee, Foshee & Associates, Montgomery, AL, J. Mason Davis, Sirote & Permutt, Birmingham, AL, J. Allen Schreiber, Gerald Alan Templeton, Lloyd, Schreiber, Gray & Gaines, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Atmore State Technical College, Betty Fine Collins, Tazewell Shepherd, and Dan Cleckler.

Jeffery A. Foshee, Foshee & Associates, Montgomery, AL, J. Mason Davis, Sirote & Permutt, Birmingham, AL, J. Allen Schreiber, Gerald Alan Templeton, Catherine L. Hogewood, Lloyd, Schreiber, Gray & Gaines, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Lawson State Community College and Perry W. Ward.

Gerald Alan Templeton, Catherine L. Hogewood, Lloyd, Schreiber, Gray & Gaines, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Anthony A. Joseph, Helen Kathryn Downs, Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Powell, Birmingham, AL, R. Scott Clark, Whiteside & Fitzpatrick, Birmingham, AL, for Fob James, Bradley Byrne, G.J. Higginbotham, Stephanie Bell, David F. Byers, Jr., Sandra Ray, Mary Jane Caylor, Earl Roberson, and Trenholm State Technical College.

James M. Parker, Jr., Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Powell, Birmingham, AL, Raymond P. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Whiteside & Fitzpatrick, Birmingham, AL, for Jamie C. Moncrief, and Thomas L. Davis.

Before JOEL F. DUBINA, Circuit Judge, MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief District Judge, and W. HAROLD ALBRITTON, District Judge.

MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief Judge.

ORDER

The issue presented to this three-judge court is whether officials of the State of Alabama failed to obtain preclearance for a change from staggered to concurrent terms for members of the State Board of Education, in violation of § 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1973c. We hold that State officials should have but failed to obtain preclearance for the change.

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