United States Eleventh Circuit

In vote dilution case involving African American voters challenging the at-large method of electing members of the county commission and school board, denial of relief to plaintiffs is reversed where the district court committed error in concluding that plaintiffs failed to establish a section 2 remedy under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and in failing explain with sufficient particularity that the totality of the circumstances weakens the plaintiffs' vote dilution claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/24/2007
• Published 07/24/2007

Judges

• BARKETT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, BARKETT and GOODWIN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Neil Bradley, ACLU Foundation, Inc., Atlanta, GA, Cristina Correia, Avondale, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gavin Wallace O'Brien, Gavin W. O'Brien, P.A., Holmes Beach, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.