Legal Opinion
Hawthorne v. Hurley
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided December 21, 1990No. Civ. A. No. 89-T-381-SPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Before JOHNSON, Circuit Judge, HOBBS, Chief District Judge, and THOMPSON, District Judge. MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge:
In this action, plaintiffs Thomas Hawthorne, Emory Newman, and Andre Keith, on behalf of themselves and other African-American Democrats in Alabama, claimed that a change in the method used by defendant State Democratic Executive Committee to supplement its elected black membership had to be precleared under § 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1973c. The court agreed that § 5 required the state committee’s new plan to be submitted for…
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