GEORGIA STATE CONF. OF NAACP v. FAYETTE COUNTY BD.

Nos. 14-11202, 14-11204.

775 F.3d 1336 (2015)

GEORGIA STATE CONFERENCE OF the NAACP, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. FAYETTE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, et al., Defendants-Appellants, Fayette County Board of Education, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 7, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leah Aden , Ryan Haygood , Natasha M. Korgaonkar , Deuel Ross , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY, Neil Bradley , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Inc., Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Anne Ware Lewis , Frank B. Strickland , Bryan P. Tyson , Strickland Brockington Lewis, LLP, Larry Hugh Chesin , Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before WILSON and ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judges, and CONWAY, District Judge.


At the time this suit commenced, no African-American candidate had ever been elected to either the Fayette County Board of Commissioners (BOC) or the Fayette County Board of Education (BOE) in Fayette County, Georgia. The Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, the Fayette County Branch of the NAACP, and ten individual African...

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