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N.A.A.C.P., INC. v. AUSTIN

No. 92-CV-72696-DT.

857 F.Supp. 560 (1994)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, INC. (NAACP), et al., Plaintiffs, Ernest Lofton, et al., Intervening Plaintiffs, v. Richard H. AUSTIN, Secretary of State of Michigan, Defendant, Michigan Republican Party, et al., Intervening Defendants, State of Michigan, et al., Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Michigan.

July 14, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel L. Walters, Asst. Gen. Counsel, N.A.A.C.P. Sp. Control Fund, Baltimore, MD, Paul J. Denenfeld, ACLU Fund, Legal Director, Robert A. Sedler, Detroit, MI, for plaintiffs.

Stephen J. Markman, Detroit, MI, Deborah Anne Devine, Asst. Atty. Gen., State Affairs Div., Lansing, MI, for defendants.

Before MARTIN, Circuit Judge, and COHN and FRIEDMAN, District Judges.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

This is a challenge to the Michigan Supreme Court's 1992 legislative apportionment plan. The various plaintiffs maintain that the Court's plan dilutes African-American voting strength in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973, by creating an insufficient number of majority-black state House and Senate districts. The plaintiffs also contend that the plan intentionally concentrates African-Americans into...

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