Flemming v. South Carolina Electric and Gas Company Brief for the Appellant

    OEpAF tMt:fr r OF 3OC,OLOC Y

P. O. BOr OtOg

TH€ UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA

COLLEGE OF ARTS 
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SCIENC€S

uHlvERSlTY, ALAS^nA 33485
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CEPARTMEN T OF 50CIOLOCY

P. O- rlor 6ri9

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
COLLECE OF ARTS AHO SCI€NCE5

UNIVERSITY, ALABAMA 35486

June 10, 1980

I am enclosing 1) a long leEter I drafted
intended to edit before

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llon. Drew Day, Jr .

AssisEant AEtorrrey General for CiviI Rigl-cs
U S. JusE,ice DepartmeuE
Constitution Avenue and lOch SEreeE., N. W.

\'lashingborr, O. C. 20520

Dear Mr, Drew:

2) a statemenE by Profcssor
also in drafE form

to your office and
sending

of Law, Wythe IIolt,

3) a paper by Gary CargiI, 3 sEuclcnE, r,iirose producE
I am as pleased as I am embarrasscd to rroEc is
more readable than Ehe t.eactrers t , and probab Iy
no worse in the spelling deparEmenE

AddiEiooal dep6sitions by myself, and oEtrer studerrEs, bearing on

the matter at hand, havc been filed wich Eric I^lilson of the Tuscaloosa FBI
office.

I felE import,ant Eo send our staEemenEs on in drafC form as I
have learned t,hat DepuEy Sheriff Leon Morris is running for re elecEion
.rexE monEh t,o the City Council of AIicevilIe, Alabama. IE was DePLrEy I'lorrisrs
acEions which prompt.ed our original decisions to requesE action from E,he JusEice
DeparEmenE againsE officials responsible for the inEimidation of vot.ers wlrictr
we observed irr Pickens CounEy and for whaE, we believe rras a conspiracy Eo vlolaEe
nry civil rights fotlowing this observacion.

I imagine EhaE i.lorris is already in violaEion of some law which
should have required him to eiEher Eake a leave of absence f rom t.he st'rerif f rs

office the first Eime he ran, or Eo resign from Ehe ciEy council co accepc
Clre appoinEmenE as county deputy sherif f . (wtlictrever carnc f irs C) I arn

certain he should be disqualif icd rlow as a candidaEe in Elrc Alicevi llc
Cicv Council election, July 10.

Extensive invesEigaEion will
i.r climaEc oI intimaE,ion was deliberaEety
durinll tlrr, il.rrr:h l l prlr',.rry, or wheEhcr
o ['[.i cia ls llarclr 1'l Eo dt'privc mc tlI civi.
r wilrrilnt agrrirrst. l'1orri s f or assaulEing

I t shou Id, lror4qysr, bc immed i

r'iEizerrs will tre afraid Lo voCc Jgirinst
irr tlrc CiEy Ootrrrcll t:lcct.ion srs a rcsrrlt
'l'lr.r Arnrory is wlrcre l\ I i.ccvi I I t: rcs idcnt ';
lrc tl l.rr,t:Ely ,'rrl cl(.arl),intirnidiltc.d rrrc,
lJlr() (.tL,t|f li./,rt' ltt,ltf,l :rlrotrt it.

be required on Ehe quesEion of whettter
fomented i.n the aliccville Arrnory

Elrcrc was a consPirilcy ilrlrorlg elccccd
I rights arrd prevt:trt nly swcari rrg ouE

me in tltc Arrnrtry on Elrt: I I ctt .

,'r r e ly apparanc f.hac A l icevi 1l c
lr irr, or to llo fo Llre PoIls;rc a[],

,, {' ltis actiorls irr Elrc n r0r()ry i\larcir I I
r,,oEcd i rr tlrc prlnrary. I t is wllcrt:

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Day-2

Because tlme is of an cssence, please consider t,his a requcst
for a JusElce DcpartmenE opinlon, 4S.soon as humanly possible, on Che

qualtflcatton of Deputy Morrls as a candidate for Ehe Aliceville CiEy
Council electlon, JuIY 10, 1980.

A1so, please constder thls a forrnal statement charging that
he ts not guallfled and LhaE hls candldacy perPecuaEes and exacerbaEes
gross vlolatioos of clvtl rlghts in Plckens CounEy, and wilI precipitate
yeE worse ones.

This ls more than a request for an opinton. IE is an urgent,
plea for effectlve act,ion Eo stoP, aE leasE in this case, the revival of
popularity ln. the idea that Ehe rouEe for young men seeklng public office
is bullying and inEinidating rninoriti-es and women.

S lncerely,

Margaret P. Dobblns, Phd