United States Ninth Circuit

Evidence that Native Americans were proportionately represented in one state legislative body is insufficient to defeat a claim of vote dilution, under the section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/09/1999
• Decided 10/27/2000
• Published 10/27/2000

Judges

• CANBY, Circuit Judge:, Before:  CANBY, BRUNETTI, and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Laughlin McDonald, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sarah A. Bond, Assistant Attorney General, Helena, Montana, for the defendants-appellees.