United States Eleventh Circuit

Putnam County, Georgia's 1992 redistricting plan, which assigns voters on the basis of race to electoral districts, is unconstitutional under strict scrutiny; the plan overpopulates the two majority districts to dilute the vote in those districts, and maximizes the concentration of minority voters in other districts to ensure their electoral success.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/10/2002
• Published 06/10/2002

Judges

• HILL, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and HILL and LAY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• A. Lee Parks, Jr.,Parks, Chesin & Miller, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Maha S. Zaki, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellees., Thomas F. Richardson, Chambless, Higdon & Carson, Macon, GA, Dorothy J. Adams, Francis N. Ford, Adams & Ford, LLP, Eatonton, GA, Neil Bradley, ACLU, Atlanta, GA, for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee.