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- » - . LF a IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA SOUTHERN DIVISION WILEY L.. BOLDEN, REV. BR. L. HOPE, . JANET O. LeFLORE, JOHN L. LeFLORE, CHARLES MAXWELL, OSSIE B. PURIFOY, SHERMAN SMITH, OLLIE LEE TAYLOR, SYLVESTER WILLIAMS and MRS.F. C. WILSON, N o ’ No So N o N o No N S Plaintiffs, CIVIL ACTION VS. NO. 75-298-P CITY OF MOBILE, ALABAMA; GARY A. | GREENOUGH, ROBERT B. DOYLE, JR., and LAMBERT C. MIMS, individually and in their official capacities as Mobile County Commissioners, ~ S o N o Nu N o S o N o Defendants. ORDER Pursuant to the findings of fact and conclusions of law attached hereto, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED that Title 37, section 89 et seq., Code of Alabama, (1958), as used to establish an at-large voting system for the election of members of the Mobile City Commission, be and is hereby declared unconstitutional. It is further ORDERED: 1. That the defendants be and they are hereby ENJOINED from, after the expiration of the terms of the Commissioners now serving, electing members of the Mobile City Commission, or any governing body succeeding the Mobile City Commission, pursuant to or based on the at-large or numberec-olace provisions of Alabama Code Tit. 37, §89 et seq. 2. That the defendants and plaintiffs file with this Court within 10 days a joint plan, or separate plans if unable to agree on a joint plan, for a 9-member Mobile City Council, each of whose members shall be elected from fairly zpoportioned single-member districts, which will replace the present city commission and which will ensure equal reoresentation for all citizens of the City of Mobile. 3. That, following entry of a final ‘order herein, plaintifZs’ costs and attorneys' fees be taxed against the defendants in amounts to be determined upon appropriate motion by plaintiffs. Done this dayiof =v Fits : 1976. UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE