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WYCHE v. MADISON PARISH POLICE JURY

No. 79-1830.

635 F.2d 1151 (1981)

Zelma C. WYCHE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The MADISON PARISH POLICE JURY et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

February 2, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George M. Strickler, Jr., New Orleans, La., Raymond L. Cannon, Tallulah, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

James D. Caldwell, Dist. Atty., Tallulah, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before COLEMAN, RUBIN and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge.

The reapportionment of legislative bodies to accord one person one vote assures equal protection of voters as electors. Even when voters are afforded numerical equality as members of the polity, racial discrimination may prompt a subtle form of gerrymandering that in effect makes a vote by the voter of one race less important than the ballot of the voter of another race, and thus violates the fourteenth amendment by denying one group...

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