DILLARD v. BALDWIN COUNTY COM'N

No. CIV.A. 87-T-1159-N.

282 F.Supp.2d 1302 (2003)

John DILLARD, et al., Plaintiffs, Dale Eugene Brown, et al., Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. BALDWIN COUNTY COMMISSION, et al., Defendants.

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

August 22, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James U. Blacksher, Birmingham, AL, Lanie Guinier, Philadelphia, PA, Pamela Karlan, Nathan Abbott Way @ Alvarado Row, Stanford, CA, Julius L. Chambers, Janai S. Nelson, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New York, NY, Larry T. Menefee, Montgomery, AL, Edward Still, Birmingham, AL, Albert L. Jordan, Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, Algert S. Agricola, Jr., Slaten & O'Connor, PC, Montgomery, AL, Elaine R. Jones, Norman J. Chachkin, Jacqueline A. Berrien, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New York, NY, for plaintiffs/intervenors-plaintiffs/cross-claimants/cross-defendants.

Allan R. Chason, Taylor D. Wilkins, Jr., Claude E. Bankester, Wilkins, Bankester, Biles & Wynne, Bay Minette, AL, David R. Boyd, Dorman Walker, Balch & Bingham, William H. Pryor, Jr., Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Montgomery, AL, Patrick H. Sims, Cabaniss Johnston Gardner Dumas & O'Neal, Mobile, AL, Stanley E. Graham, Waller, Lansden, Dortch & Davis, Nashville, TN, James H. Evans, Montgomery, AL, Mortimer Parker Ames, III, Chicago, IL, Robert A. Wills, Wills & Simon, Bay Minette, AL, for defendant.

John J. Park, Jr., Office of the Attorney General, Montgomery, AL, for intervenor-defendant.


ORDER

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

It is ORDERED that the motion to alter or amend, filed by plaintiffs on September 11, 2002 (Doc. No. 224), is denied with the following comments.

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