Letter From Still To Court RE: Copies Of Letters Consenting To Filing Amicus Brief

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Case Files, Cromartie Hardbacks. Letter From Still To Court RE: Copies Of Letters Consenting To Filing Amicus Brief, 1998. 74f86337-e40e-f011-9989-7c1e5267c7b6. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/12a8be30-2d76-4d6a-b6ef-675f0eae9a61/letter-from-still-to-court-re-copies-of-letters-consenting-to-filing-amicus-brief. Accessed June 02, 2025.

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Email: EStill@LawyersComm.org 

Co-Chairs 
Jack W. Londen 
Daniel F. Kolb 

Secretary 
Robert A. Murphy 

Treasurer 

William L. Robinson 

Acting Counsel 10 November 1998 
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Executive Director dill NOV 12 19 Uy | 

Barbara R. Amwing Hon William K. Suter ore LJ] 
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One First Street NE 
Washington, DC 20543 

re: Hunt v. Cromartie, No. 98-85 (US Sup Ct), [LCCR VR 98-14] 

Dear Mr. Suter: 

Enclosed are copies of letters from each party in this appeal giving 
their consent to the filing of an amicus brief by the Lawyers’ Committee. 
The brief will arrive under separate cover directly from the printer today. 

Your attention to this matter is appreciated. If you have any 
questions, please call me. 

Sincerely, 

alll 
Edward Still 

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cc w/ encl: 

Todd A. Cox, Esq. 

NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. 

1444 I Street, N.W., 10th Floor 

Washington, D.C. 20005 

Adam Stein, Esq. 

Ferguson, Stein, Wallas, Adkins, Gresham & Sumter, P.A. 
312 West Franklin Street 

Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516 

The Committee was formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy 

 



Elaine R. Jones, Esq. 

Norman J. Chachkin, Esq. 

Jacqueline A. Berrien, Esq. 

NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. 
99 Hudson Street, Suite 1600 

New York, New York 10013 

Robinson O. Everett, Esq. 

P.O. Box 586 

Durham, NC 27702 

Martin B. McGee, Esq. 

Williams, Boger, Grady, Davis & Tuttle 

P.O. Box 810 

Concord, NC 28026-0810 

Edwin M. Speas, Jr., Esq. 

Tiare Bowe Smiley , Esq. 

North Carolina Dept. of Justice 
PO Box 629 

Raleigh, NC 27602-0629 

 



State of North Carolina 
MICHAEL F. EASLEY Department of Justice 
ATTORNEY GENERAL P.O. BOX 629 Reply to: 

RALEIGH Edwin M. Speas. Jr. 
27602-0629 Administration 

(919) 716-6400 

October 1, 1998 

Mr. Edward Still 

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil 

Rights Under Law 

1450 G Street, NW 

Suite 400 

Washington, DC 20005 

RE: Hunt v. Cromartie, No. 98-85 (U.S. Sup. Ct.) 

Dear Mr. Still: 

I am writing on behalf of Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. and the other defendants in this 
matter to consent to the request of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to file an 
amicus brief arguing for reversal of the decision below. 

Very truly yours, 

Edwin M. Speas, Jr. 

Chief Deputy Attorney General 

EMSijr/it 

oC; Robinson O. Everett 

Adam Stein 

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WiLriams, Boer, GrRaDY, Davis & TUTTLE, P A. 

  

JOHN R. BOGER, JR. THOMAS M. GRADY 
ATTORNEYS AT LAW 

SAMUEL F. DAVIS, JR M. SLATE TUTTLE, JR 

P.O. BOX 810   
DUANE S MILLER 

MARTIN B. McGEE   
CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA 28026-0810 

JOHN HUGH WILLIAMS (1913-1995) 708 McLAIN ROAD 

  

  
KANNAPOLIS, NORTH CAROLINA 2808.1 

147 UNION STREET SOUTH 

CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA 28025 

TELEPHONE 704/ 782-1173 

FAX 704/788-2215 

TELEPHONE 704/ 932-3157 

FAX 704/ 932-9597 

October 5, 1998 

Mr. Edward Still 

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law 

1450 G Street, N.W. 

Washington, DC 20005 

Re: Hunt v. Cromartie, No. 98-85 

Supreme Court of the United States 

Dear Mr. Still: 

Mr. Everett and I have no objection to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights 

Under Law filing an Amicus brief in the above referenced matter. 

Sincerely, 

7 

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Martin B. McGee 

   
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cc: Robinson Everett 

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November 4, 1998 

Edward Still 
Director, Voting Rights Project 
Lawyers’ Committee for 

Civil Rights Under Law 
1450 G Street, N.W_, Suite 400 
Washington, D.C. 2000S 

Re: Hunt v. Cromartie, SuprNo. 98-85 

Dear Mr. Still: 

I hereby consent, on behalf of Appellant Defendant-Intervenors Alfred Smallwood, er al , 
to your filing an amicus curiae brief for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in 
the above-captioned case. 

Sincerely, : 

2 XL AL 
odd A. Cox 

Assistant Coyfisel 

Counsel of Record 

Appellant Defendant-Intervenors 

   

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