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LEE COUNTY BRANCH OF NAACP v. CITY OF OPELIKA

No. 83-7275.

748 F.2d 1473 (1984)

LEE COUNTY BRANCH OF the NAACP, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The CITY OF OPELIKA, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 17, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Ellmann, Ira A. Burnim, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Guy F. Gunter, III, Opelika, Ala., Thomas S. Lawson, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before HILL and HENDERSON, Circuit Judges, and WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judge.

WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judge:

The plaintiffs in this case allege that the at-large scheme for electing the municipal government for the city of Opelika, Alabama violates the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1973 (West Supp.1984). The case was tried under the law as pronounced in Nevett v. Sides, 5 Cir.1978, 571 F.2d 209, cert. denied, 1980...

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