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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, 

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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, 

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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

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