Julius McGruder and Conway Gilcrest v. The Phillips County Election Commission

HARPER, Senior District Judge.

Appellants appeal the district court’s dismissal of their amended complaint. Appellants are Julius McGruder and the Reverend Conway Gilcrest. They sued the Phillips County Election Commission; and John L. Anderson, Bart Lindsey and Bankston Waters in their official capacities as election commissioners. Appellants based their claims on the Fifth Amendment; the Thirteenth Amendment; the Fourteenth Amendment; the Fifteenth Amendment; 42 U.S.C. § 1973, et seq.; 42 U.S.C. § 1981; 42 U.S.C. § 1983; and 28 U.S.C. § 1343. The matter was tried before the United States…