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AFRICAN-AMERICAN AFFAIRS v. McWHERTER

No. 92-2407-TUBRO.

877 F.Supp. 1096 (1995)

RURAL WEST TENNESSEE AFRICAN-AMERICAN AFFAIRS COUNCIL, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Ned McWHERTER, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Tennessee, Western Division.

February 22, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce S. Kramer (ACLU), Borod & Kramer, Memphis, TN, Richard Dinkins (ACLU), Williams and Dinkins, Nashville, TN, Kathleen Wilde (ACLU), American Civil Liberties Union, Atlanta, GA, Keenan R. Keller (ACLU), Davis, Polk & Wordwell, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Richard Fields (NAACP), Memphis, TN, for intervenor.

Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen. and Reporter, Michael W. Catalano, Deputy Atty. Gen., John H. Reinhold, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, TN, for defendants.

Before: MERRITT, Chief Circuit Judge; BAILEY BROWN, Circuit Judge; and TURNER, District Judge.

OPINION OF THREE-JUDGE COURT

MERRITT, Chief Circuit Judge.

In this legislative reapportionment case under § 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973, the plaintiffs seek additional majority-black seats in the state senate for west Tennessee. In a previous decision in this case, reported as Rural W. Tenn. African-American Affairs Council v. McWherter, 836 F.Supp. 453 (W.D.Tenn.1993), vacated,<...

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