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McMILLAN v. ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FLA.

Nos. 78-3507, 80-5011.

748 F.2d 1037 (1984)

Henry T. McMILLAN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA, et al., Defendants-Appellants. Elmer JENKINS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF PENSACOLA, et al., Defendants. Henry T. McMILLAN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FLORIDA, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 19, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard I. Lott, County Atty., Patricia D. Wheeler, Paula G. Drummond, Richard P. Warfield, D.L. Middlebrooks, B. Dawn Wiggins, Thomas R. Santurri, Pensacola, Fla., for Escambia County.

Ray, Patterson & Kievit, P.A., Pensacola, Fla., Rhyne & Rhyne, William S. Rhyne, Charles S. Rhyne, Donald A. Carr, Washington, D.C., for School Bd.

James U. Blacksher, Larry T. Menefee, Blacksher, Menefee & Stein, Mobile, Ala., Edward Still, Reeves & Still, Birmingham, Ala., Kent Spriggs, Spriggs & Henderson, Tallahassee, Fla., Julius C. Chambers, Napoleon B. Williams, Legal Defense Fund, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Don J. Caton, City Atty., Pensacola, Fla., for City of Pensacola.

Before RUBIN and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

ON REMAND FROM THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, black voters of Escambia County, Florida, filed this class action in March 1977, challenging the at-large system for electing Escambia County commissioners.1 The district court held the system was unconstitutional pursuant to the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and that it violated section 2 of the...

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