United States Second Circuit

In a case in which minority voters sought a preliminary injunction of the 2011 elections for the Albany County Legislature for alleged redistricting violations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, denial of relief is affirmed, where: 1) the appeal was not moot because it would be possible to restore the parties to the status quo if the plaintiffs were to prevail; 2) the first factor for a Section 2 claim identified in Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30 (1986), does not require plaintiffs to show that the minority group is a super-majority in a proposed majority-minority district; but 3) the district court did not clearly err in finding that the plaintiffs had failed to demonstrate likely success on the third Gingles factor, white bloc voting.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/29/2012
• Published 05/29/2012

Judges

• Reena Raggi

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mitchell A. Karlan, Thomas Marcelle