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U.S. v. CHARLESTON COUNTY

Nos. 2:01-0155-11, 2:01-562-11.

318 F.Supp.2d 302 (2002)

THE UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. CHARLESTON COUNTY, South Carolina; Charleston County Council; John O. Conlon, TOI Ahrens Estes, Cindy M. Floyd, Curtis E. Bostic, A.D. Jordan, Barrett S. Lawrimore, Timothy E. Scott, Leon E. Stavrinakis, Charles Wallace, members of Charleston County Council; Charleston County Election Commission, Defendants. Lee H. Moultrie, George Freeman, Maggie McGill, and Sandra Flower, Plaintiffs, v. Charleston County Council, and Charleston County Election Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Charleston Division.

July 10, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon Rene Josey, Turner Padget Graham and Laney, Florence, SC, John H. Douglas, U.S. Attorneys Office, Charleston, SC, Joseph D. Rich, Christopher Coates, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs.

A. Arthur Rosenblum, Rosenblum and Goldberg, Charleston, SC, Bernard Eugene Ferrara, Jr., Joseph Dawson, III, Charleston County Legal Department, N Charleston, SC, Samuel W. Howell, IV, Howell and Linkous, Mt Pleasant, SC, Benjamin E. Griffith, Cleveland, MS, Lucas C. Padgett, Jr., Michael C. Scarafile, McNair Law Firm, Mikell Ross Scarborough, Charleston, SC, for Defendants.

ORDER

DUFFY, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court upon the Magistrate Judge's recommendation that this Court grant Plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment on the three preconditions, as outlined in the United States Supreme Court decision, Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30, 106 S.Ct. 2752, 92 L.Ed.2d 25 (1986), requisite to a Voting Rights Act claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1973. A party...

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