Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit June 30, 1987, No. 85-7625 (Smith v. Meese)

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CLARK, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiff-appellants in this case are nine black voters and elected officials who allege that the defendant-appellees, the Attorney General of the United States and other Department of Justice officials, “are engaged in a concerted and unlawful effort both to interfere with black citizens’ associational and political activities in Alabama’s ‘Black Belt' and