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BRIDGEPORT COALITION v. CITY OF BRIDGEPORT

No. 1592, Docket 93-9254.

26 F.3d 271 (1994)

BRIDGEPORT COALITION FOR FAIR REPRESENTATION; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Greater Bridgeport Branch; Puerto Rican Coalition; Connecticut Latino Redistricting Committee; Ralph Ford; Raymond Correa; Mary McDuffie; Wilfredo Matos; Edwin Gomes; Julian Braxton; Rose Mercado, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF BRIDGEPORT; Joseph Ganim, Mayor of the City of Bridgeport; Lisa Parziale, President of the Bridgeport City Council; Fleeta Hudson, City Clerk, City of Bridgeport; Hector Diaz, Town Clerk, City of Bridgeport; Francis Boziek, Registrar of Voters, City of Bridgeport; Lucille Bruno, Registrar of Voters, City of Bridgeport, Defendants-Appellants, Bridgeport City Council, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 25, 1994.

Opinion Filed June 8, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. King, Hartford, CT (Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C.), for defendants-appellants.

JoNel Newman, Philip D. Tegeler, Hartford, CT (Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, Hartford, CT); Justino Rosado, New Haven, CT (Chaucer & Rosado, New Haven, CT); Laughlin McDonald, Atlanta, GA (American Civil Liberties Union Southern Regional Office, Atlanta, GA); Samuel L. Walters, Baltimore, MD (NAACP Special Contribution Fund, Baltimore, MD), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before: MAHONEY, WALKER, and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges.

SPROUSE, Senior Circuit Judge:

The City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, appeals the district court's grant of a preliminary injunction prohibiting it from conducting city elections under its 1993 reapportionment plan. The court found that the plaintiffs, a coalition of minority rights advocates, were likely to succeed on their claim that the City violated section 2 of the Voting Rights Act1 by diluting minority voting opportunities in reapportioning...

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