CARROLLTON BRANCH OF NAACP v. STALLINGS

Nos. 86-8405, 86-8661.

829 F.2d 1547 (1987)

CITY OF CARROLLTON BRANCH OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, Voter Education Project City of Carrollton, Marvin Walker, Robert Springer, James Wyatt and Jeff Long, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Tracey STALLINGS, Individually and in his official capacity as Mayor of the City of Carrollton, et al., Defendants, Horrie Duncan, Individually and in his capacity as Carroll County Commissioner, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 19, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh Jeffery Lanier, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., J. Eugene Beckham, Jr., Johnson, Beckham & Price, Robert F. Dangle, Carrollton, Ga., for amicus curiae.

Wayne B. Kendall, Kendall, Kendall & Hurst, Angelia R. Souder, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants.

J. Eugene Beckham, Jr., Johnson, Beckham & Price, Carrollton, Ga., for Horrie Duncan.

Robert H. Sullivan, Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer, P.C., Carrollton, Ga., for Brown, Ault, Martin, Gambel & Greer.

Before HATCHETT and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.


TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves a challenge to the single county commissioner form of government in Carroll County, Georgia, under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, and under the Constitution of the United States. The plaintiffs are appealing the district court's judgment for the defendants, based on its finding that the creation and continued use of the single member Carroll County Commission does not violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights...

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