United States Fourth Circuit

Plaintiffs' suit, claiming that a legislative redistricting plan denies minority voters an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice, is dismissed for lack of standing where plaintiffs are not sufficiently numerous to constitute a voting majority in any single-member district in Virginia.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/22/2004
• Published 09/22/2004

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER, SHEDD, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:J. Gerald Hebert, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellants.   Michael A. Carvin, Jones Day, Washington, D.C.;  Edward Meade Macon, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Office Of The Attorney General Of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  Donald L. Morgan, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Washington, D.C.;  Anita S. Earls, Unccenter For Civil Rights, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for Appellants.   Jerry W. Kilgore, Attorney General of Virginia, Judith Williams Jagdmann, Deputy Attorney General, James C. Stuchell, Assistant Attorney General, Richmond, Virginia;  Louis K. Fisher, Shay Dvoretzky, Cody R. Smith, Jones Day, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.