Dillard v. Chilton County Commission

OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

This matter is before the court on defendant Chilton County Commission’s motion to dismiss this action. The plaintiffs do not object to dissolution of the 1988 consent decree and dismissal of this action, but only on the condition that the court hold that the seven-member cumulative-voting election system required by the consent decree is now authorized by, and does not violate, Alabama law. The commission’s dismissal motion to will be granted.

As this court noted in its opinion approving modification of the 1988 consent decree, Dillard v. Chilton…