On March 21, 1978 the three-judge District Court in the District of South Carolina which had heard McCray v. Hucks, Civil Action No. 76-2476, entered an order
allowing the 1978 elections, notwithstanding the Voting Rights Act, “subject to any contrary or modifying order that may be entered by any court in the District of Columbia Circuit having jurisdiction.” We are troubled by this order because it was entered ex parte in an action which appears to have been dismissed on January 9, 1978 after having been abandoned by its plaintiffs several months earlier. But in any event, the South Carolina court's explicit recognition of our power to enter a superseding order prevents the issue from becoming moot in this court.