Read Fairley v. Hattiesburg, 08-60942

In an action under the Voting Rights Act concerning the drawing of districts for municipal elections, judgment for defendants is affirmed where: 1) plaintiffs failed to present evidence constituting a redistricting plan that would have shown either the factual or legal possibility of creating a majority-minority district by dividing college dormitory students among the city's wards; and 2) the district court did not clearly err in its use of total voting age population in making its computations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/30/2009
• Published 09/30/2009

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before REAVLEY, SMITH and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ellis F. Turnage (argued), Turnage Law Office, Cleveland, MS, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jerry L. Mills (argued) and John Preston Scanlon (argued), Pyle, Mills, Dye & Pittman, Ridgeland, MS, for Defendant-Appellee.