United States Eighth Circuit

In a Voting Rights Act action claiming that a city ordinance establishing boundaries for three voting wards within the city diluted the votes of Indians in each ward, judgment for defendants is affirmed where the district court did not commit clear error in finding that the plaintiffs failed to meet the third Gingles precondition, i.e., that the white majority in the city voted sufficiently as a bloc to enable it usually to defeat the minority's preferred candidate in city council elections.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/05/2010
• Published 05/05/2010

Judges

• COLLOTON, Circuit Judge., Before RILEY, Chief Judge,WOLLMAN, LOKEN, MURPHY, BYE, MELLOY, SMITH, COLLOTON, GRUENDER, BENTON, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sara Frankenstein, argued, Donald P. Knudsen, on the brief, Rapid City, SD, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bryan Sells, argued, Atlanta, GA, Patrick Duffy, Rapid City, SD, for Appellees.