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JACKSON, Miss. — A federal court in Mississippi finds that the chief justice of the state’s supreme court enjoys judicial immunity against the NAACP’s suit against him and others, arguing that a new state law allowing the chief justice to appoint special judges to circuit courts violates citizens’ equal protection rights by depriving them of the opportunity to elect those courts’ judges.
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