United States Eleventh Circuit

In a vote dilution claim, the Court found that a protected minority group pursuing a vote dilution claim under section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has no right to relief unless it can demonstrate that its members would have the size and ability to elect the candidate of its choice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/13/2004
• Published 07/13/2004

Judges

• DUBINA, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA and CARNES, Circuit Judges, and MILLS , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James U. Blacksher, Birmingham, AL, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick H. Sims, Mobile, AL, Albert L. Jordan, Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, Algert Swanson Agricola, Jr., Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, John J. Park, Jr., Montgomery, AL, for Appellees.