Robert SCOTT; Parke Herbert; C. Martin Lawyer, III; Edna Sims; Earl James; Rosalie M. Serrano
v.
The UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE; Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States; State of Florida, by and through Robert Butterworth; and Robert Butterworth, Attorney General of Florida.
United States District Court, M.D. Florida, Tampa Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
March 19, 1996.
March 19, 1996.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Stephen N. Zack, Zack, Hanzman, Ponce, Tucker, Korge & Gillespie, P.A., Miami, FL, Benjamin H. Hill, III, Hill, Ward & Henderson, P.A., Tampa, FL, for The Florida Senate, through Senator Jim Scott.
Robert B. McDuff, Law Office of Robert B. McDuff, Jackson, MS, for James T. Hargrett, Jr.
Brenda Wright, Todd A. Cox, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for Moease Smith, Wilmateen Chandler, Vivian Kelly, Jesse Nipper, Victoria Brown, Anthony Carswell, Patrice Carswell, Katherine Clark, Earnest Clark, Clarence Fort, Yvonne Fort, Sarah Gooding, Mary Hobley, Emanuel Johnson, Kathy Malone, Nadine McLeod, Elizabeth McMillan, Irma Rodriguez, Rubin Rodriguez, Carl Small, Nina Small, Ben Smith, Jr., Geraldine Tillmon, Michael Tillmon, Julia Timmons, Harold Williams, George Young.
James Maxwell Landis, Foley & Lardner, Tampa, FL, for plaintiffs.
Steven J. Mulroy, Richard B. Jerome, U.S. Dept. of Justice Voting Section, Civil Rights Section, Washington, DC, for The United States Department of Justice, Janet Reno.
George Lee Waas, Peter Antonacci, Attorney General's Office, Dept. of Legal Affairs Tallahassee, FL, for State of Florida, by and through Robert Butterworth.
Stephen N. Zack, Zack, Hanzman, Ponce, Tucker, Korge & Gillespie, P.A., Miami, FL, for The Florida Senate.
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Jenner & Block, Washington, DC, B. Elaine New, Florida House of Representatives, Tallahassee, FL, for The Florida House of Representatives.
Parker D. Thomson, Thomson, Muraro, Razook & Hart, P.A., Miami, FL, for Helen Gordon Davis.
Charles Gilbert Burr, III, Charles G. Burr, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Florida State Conference of NAACP Branches.
Donald L. Bell, Fla. Dept. of State Office of the Secretary, Tallahassee, FL, for Sandra Barringer Mortham.
Before TJOFLAT, Chief Circuit Judge, and NIMMONS and MERRYDAY, District Judges.
United States District Court, M.D. Florida, Tampa Division.
FINAL ORDER
MERRYDAY, District Judge:
This action began with a complaint filed on April 4, 1994, in which Robert Scott and others sued the United States Department of Justice and the State of Florida and challenged the configuration of District 21 of Florida's Senate. The court permitted intervention by (1) the Florida Senate; (2) Senator James T. Hargrett, Jr., the incumbent representative of District 21; (3) Moease Smith and others, some of whom...
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