Order for Submission for Lawrence County Defendants
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December 18, 1986

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Case Files, Dillard v. Crenshaw County Hardbacks. Order for Submission for Lawrence County Defendants, 1986. d287fe97-b7d8-ef11-a730-7c1e527e6da9. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/9d0962c1-c5a2-41d7-9339-32f3c0b55128/order-for-submission-for-lawrence-county-defendants. Accessed July 30, 2025.
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és 4 i FILED IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ol aa FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA DEC 181986 NORTHERN DIVISION JOHN DILLARD, et al., Plaintiffs, Vv. Civil Action No. 85-T-1332-N CRENSHAW COUNTY, AL, et al., N t ” N t a N e C l S m t ? a t ” e t w t ” Defendant. ORDER The court has before it the Lawrence County Defendants’ motion for stay pending appeal. A telephone conference was con- ducted with counsel for Lawrence County and counsel for the Plaintiffs. Upon consideration of the pending motion, and in and by agreement of the parties, light of the matters discussed in the telephone conference,/ it is ORDERED, ADJUDGED and DECREED as follows: 1. The Lawrence County Defendants shall submit any addi- tional authority in support of their motion not later than Fri- day, December 19, 1986. 2. The Plaintiffs shall respond, and submit any authori- ties in opposition to the motion, not later than December 31, 1986, at which time the motion will be submitted for decision. 3 In the event the court denies the motion for stay pend- ing appeal, the court will nevertheless grant a temporary stay of that aspect of its October 21, 1986 judgment and injunction which prohibited a chairperson elected at-large and required that the chairperson position be rotated among the associate commission- ers, with such temporary stay to remain in effect until such time rf we é 4 that a promptly-filed motion for stay pending appeal can be presented by the Lawrence County Defendants to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and acted upon by the Eleventh Circuit. That is, should this court deny the motion, the Lawrence County Defendants will have the opportunity to present the matter to the Eleventh Circuit before the incumbent chairperson is required to relinquish office under the Court's October 21, 1986 judgment and injunction. A ol Uni¥ed States District 5 e