United States Eleventh Circuit

In a case involving consent decree obtained by a class of African-American plaintiffs as part of landmark litigation that restructured much of Alabama's county-level governance in accordance with the then-prevailing understanding of the Voting Rights Act, order granting motion to intervene by third parties is vacated as the intervenors had the standing necessary to challenge the consent decree.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/20/2007
• Published 08/20/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before TJOFLAT, BLACK and EBEL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edward Still, Edward Still Law Firm & Mediation Center, James U. Blacksher, Birmingham, AL, for John Dillard, Damascus Crittenden, Jr., Earwen Ferrell, Clarence J. Jarrells, Ullysses McBride, Louis Hall, Jr., Robert R. Binion, John Wright, Chilton County Com'n and Robert B. Martin., Kelly Fitzgerald Pate, Balch & Bingham LLP, Algert Swanson Agricola, Jr., Slaten & O'Conner, P.C., Dorman Walker, Montgomery, AL, John Hollis Jackson, Jr., Clanton, AL, for Chilton County Com'n, Robert B. Martin, Gilbert Green and Calvin Jones, Jr., Albert L. Jordan, Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Gilbert Green and Calvin Jones, Jr.