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TALLAHASSEE BRANCH OF NAACP v. LEON COUNTY, FLA.

No. 86-3464.

827 F.2d 1436 (1987)

TALLAHASSEE BRANCH OF NAACP, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 21, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Weisberg, Lipman & Weisberg, David M. Lipman, Miami, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellants.

F.E. Steinmeyer, III, Vickers & Muldoon, Tallahassee, Fla., Katharine I. Butler, University of South Carolina, College of Law, Columbia, S.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before GODBOLD and HILL, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

HILL, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the narrow question of whether the reapportionment plan at issue was legislatively enacted or judicially imposed. In this case, county commissioners for Leon County, Florida (defendant-appellee) enacted a reapportionment plan which clearly complies with the Voting Rights Act and the United States Constitution. The plaintiff-appellant (NAACP) argues that because this plan was not adopted by a referendum as required by Florida...

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