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UNITED STATES v. CITY OF CAMBRIDGE, MARYLAND

No. 86-3533.

799 F.2d 137 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. CITY OF CAMBRIDGE, MARYLAND; Commissioners of Cambridge, Maryland; Gorton McWilliams, Jr., Edward Watkins, Guy Windsor, James Newcomb, Jr., Philip Rice, Commissioners; Mayor of Cambridge, Maryland; C. Lloyd Robbins, Mayor of Cambridge, Maryland; Supervisor of Elections of Cambridge, Maryland and Claude Gootee, Supervisor, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 2, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian K. Landsberg (Marie Klimesz McElderry, Breckinridge L. Willcox, U.S. Atty., William Bradford Reynolds, Asst. U.S. Atty. on brief), for appellant.

Francis B. Burch, Jr. (Richard M. Matthews, Roger D. Redden, Paul A. Tiburzi on brief), for appellees.

Before PHILLIPS and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.

SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

The United States appeals from the district court's decision granting the City of Cambridge, Maryland summary judgment on the Government's Voting Rights Act complaint. The Government brought this action in December 1984 alleging that Cambridge's at-large system for electing its commissioners violated section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended. 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (1982).1 Without entering into a settlement...

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