DILLARD v. BALDWIN COUNTY COM'N

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

289 F.Supp.2d 1315 (2003)

John DILLARD, et al., Plaintiffs, Dale Eugene Brown, et al., Plaintiff-Intervenors, Billy R. Smith, et al., Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. BALDWIN COUNTY COMMISSION, et al., Defendants, Adrian Johns, etc., Defendant.

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

October 27, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James U. Blacksher, Birmingham, AL, Lanie Guinier, Law School of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Pamela Karlan, Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, Julius L. Chambers, Janai S. Nelson, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New York City, Larry T. Menefee, Montgomery, AL, Edward Still, Birmingham, AL, Albert L. Jordan, Wallace, Jordon, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, Algert S. Agricola, Jr., Slaten & O'Connor, PC, Montgomery, AL, Norman J. Chachkin, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New York City, for Plaintiffs.

Taylor D. Wilkins, Jr., Claude E. Bankester, Wilkins, Bankester, Biles & Wynne, Bay Minette, AL, William H. Pryor, Jr., Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Alabama State House, Montgomery, AL, Patrick H. Sims, Cabaniss Johnston Gardner Dumas & O'Neal, Mobile, AL, Stanley E. Graham, Waller, Lansden, Dortch & Davis, Nashville, TN, Robert A. Wills, Wills & Simon, J. Scott Barnett, Baldwin County Commission, Bay Minette, AL, John J. Park, Jr., Office of the Attorney General, Montgomery, AL, James U. Blacksher, Birmingham, AL, Lanie Guinier, Philadelphia, PA, Pamela Karlan, Stanford, CA, Julius L. Chambers, NAAP Legal Defense Fund, New York City, Larry T. Menefee, Montgomery, AL, Edward Still, Birmingham, AL, Jacqueline A. Berrien, NAACP, New York City, for Defendants.


ORDER

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

This 15-year-old lawsuit is again before the court, this time on the issue of whether and, if so, when the court should call for an election of the members of the Baldwin County Commission in the wake of this court's recent orders vacating the 1988 injunction which had increased the commission's size from four to seven and created single-member districts. For the reasons given below, the court agrees to the suggestion...

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