ARBOR HILL CONCERNED CITIZENS v. COUNTY OF ALBANY

Docket Nos. 03-9132(L), 03-9204.

357 F.3d 260 (2004)

ARBOR HILL CONCERNED CITIZENS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, Aaron Mair, Maryam Mair, Mildred Chang and Albany County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. COUNTY OF ALBANY and ALBANY COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS, Defendants-Appellees. Albany County Republican Committee and Republican Caucus of the Albany County Legislature, Intervenors-Cross-Appellants. Christopher Earl STRUNK, Movant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: January 28, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell A. Karlan, New York, New York (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, New York, New York, Derohannesian & Derohannesian, Albany, New York, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

Michael C. Lynch, Albany County Attorney, Albany, New York, for Defendant-Appellees.

Thomas Marcelle, Delmar, New York, for Intervenor-Cross-Appellants.

Before: NEWMAN, KEARSE, and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Plaintiffs Arbor Hill Concerned Citizens Neighborhood Association et al. appeal from so much of an October 22, 2003 order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, Norman A. Mordue, Judge, as refused to order a special election to remedy violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ("VRA"), 42 U.S.C. § 1973, with respect to the districting for elections to the Albany County Legislature ("Legislature")...

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