Legal Opinion
Dillard v. City of Foley
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided February 13, 1998No. Civil Action 87-T-1213-NPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief Judge.
On September 27, 1994, the plaintiffs, representatives of a class of African-Americans, filed a motion in this long-standing lawsuit petitioning the court for further relief and claiming that defendant City of Foley, Alabama, had engaged in racially-discriminatory annexation policies in violation of § 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1973 (West 1994), and the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, as enforced through 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 (West 1994). By order entered on October 30, 1995, the court…
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