United States v. Theron C. Lynd, Circuit Clerk and Registrar of Voters of Forrest County, State of Mississippi

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• finding effective denial where the district court conducted a merits hearing on the injunction motion and the movant “proved without question” its entitlement to relief, but the district court unduly delayed ruling on that motion
• finding effective denial where the district court conducted a merits hearing on the injunction motion and the movant “proved without question” its entitlement to relief, but the district court unduly delayed ruling on that motion
• without discussion, permitting the Attorney General to bring a nonstatutory suit for an injunction to restrain Voting Rights Act violations
• without discussion, permitting the Attorney General to bring a nonstatutory suit for an injunction to restrain Voting Rights Act violations
• “the movant . . . was clearly entitled to have a ruling from the trial judge [on his motion], and since he did not grant the order his action in declining to do so was in all respects a ‘refusal’”

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