Legal Opinion
Brown v. BOARD OF SCH. COM'RS OF MOBILE CTY., ALA.
District Court, S.D. Alabama
Decided April 15, 1982No. Civ. A. 75-298-PPublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
PITTMAN, Senior District Judge.
This cause was retried by this court upon remand from the United States Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
The plaintiffs are representatives of a class composed of all black citizens of Mobile County, Alabama. 1 They claim that the present statutory system of at-large elections of the five commissioners of the Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County dilutes the voting strength of black citizens in violation of rights guaranteed them by the first, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the United…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Larry Bonner v. City of Prichard, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1981
- Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Washington v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. FeeneySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Smith v. AllwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
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3Cited by16 opinions
- United States v. Marengo County CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984
- White v. State of Ala.District Court, M.D. Alabama · 1994
- Johnson v. Governor of FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2003
- Dillard v. Baldwin County CommissionDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2002
- Leila G. Brown, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, Alabama, Leila G. Brown v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
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