Legal Opinion
Kennedy v. Riley
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided August 18, 2006No. Civil Action 2:05cv1100-MHTPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.
This three-judge court has been convened to consider the claim of plaintiffs Yvonne Kennedy, James Buskey, and William Clark that, under § 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1973c, the State of Alabama was required, but failed, to preclear two decisions of the Alabama Supreme Court: Stokes v. Noonan, 534 So.2d 237 (Ala.1988), and Riley v. Kennedy, 928 So.2d 1013 (Ala.2005). For the reasons that follow, we hold that the state court decisions should have been precleared before they were implemented.
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