POPE v. COUNTY OF ALBANY

Docket No. 11-3439-cv.

687 F.3d 565 (2012)

Anne POPE, Janis Gonzalez, Wanda Willingham, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COUNTY OF ALBANY, Albany County Board of Elections, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: May 29, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell A. Karlan , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY, (Aric H. Wu, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY; Paul DerOhannesian III , Der-Ohannesian & DerOhannesian, Albany, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Thomas Marcelle, Esq. , and Peter Barber , Murphy, Burns, Barber & Murphy, LLP, Albany, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: McLAUGHLIN, CALABRESI, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.


REENA RAGGI, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, black and Hispanic registered voters in Albany County, sue the County and the County Board of Elections (collectively "defendants") in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Lawrence E. Kahn, Judge) for enacting a redistricting plan for the Albany County Legislature ("Local Law C") in response to the 2010 United States census that allegedly dilutes black and Hispanic voting strength in...

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