Legal Opinion
Dillard v. Baldwin County Commission
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided September 3, 2002No. CIV.A. 87-T-1159-NPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.
After 14 years, this lawsuit has come full circle, in that the issues before the court include not only whether the permanent injunction issued by this court in 1988 should be terminated but also whether the injunction should have been entered in the first place. The original lawsuit, brought by the plaintiffs on behalf of all black citizens in Baldwin County, Alabama, charged that the at-large voting system used by the Baldwin County Commission violated § 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1973, and the fourteenth and…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Nipper v. SmithCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1994
- Ron Harper, Kevin Perkins, William Elliot, and Robert McCoy v. City of Chicago Heights and the Chicago Heights Election Commission, Ron Harper, Kevin Perkins, William Elliot, and Robert McCoy v. Chicago Heights Park District, Cross-Appellee, and David Orr, Cook County ClerkCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2000
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3Cited by6 opinions
- John Dillard v. Baldwin County CommissionersCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2004
- Dillard v. Baldwin County CommissionDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2003
- Dillard v. Chilton County CommissionDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2006
- Dillard v. Chilton County CommissionDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2006
- Dillard v. Baldwin County CommissionDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 2003
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