United States Eleventh Circuit

African-American plaintiffs' civil rights challenge, to a city's at-large method of electing city council members, is not actionable where no vote dilution is found in violation of section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/05/2002
• Published 07/09/2002

Judges

• MARCUS, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKETT and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and HIGHSMITH, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kevin K. Russell, Mark L. Gross, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Intervenor.


• For Appellees:
  
• Anita S. Hodgkiss, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Jacqueline Rubin, Asst. Fed. Pub. Def., Miami, FL, John M. Clark, Elberton, GA, Willie James Woodruff, Jr., Toccoa, GA, Richard D. Mosier, Sunil R. Kulkarni, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees., Robert Maddox Brinson, David Clarence Smith, J. Anderson Davis, Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis LLP, Rome, GA, for Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.