Legal Opinion
Stringer v. Lucas
District Court, N.D. Mississippi
Decided January 25, 1993No. Civ. A. No. DC 89-120-D-OPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
This action arises out of an election held on June 6, 1989 for the office of Mayor of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Wanda Stringer, the plaintiff herein, received the highest number of votes in the election for mayor, but at the instigation of incumbent Mayor Earl S. Lucas, the City Elections Commission disqualified plaintiff, and in her place certified Mayor Lucas, who received the second highest vote total, as the winner of the election. Ms. Stringer and the other named plaintiffs thereafter filed the instant action for declaratory and injunctive relief based on causes of…
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