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McGHEE v. GRANVILLE COUNTY, N.C.

No. 88-1553.

860 F.2d 110 (1988)

Andrew J. McGHEE; Lacy Joyner; Darryl Moss; Eugene Fields; Aurelia B. Burton, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. GRANVILLE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA; Granville County Board of Commissioners; Samuel W. Daniel, Chairman of the Granville County Board of County Commissioners; W.E. Averette; J. David Brooks; L. Sam Daniel; R. Wayne Newton, Commissioners of Granville County, North Carolina and their successors and agents, Defendants-Appellants and Granville County Board of Elections; Franklin E. Elliott, Jr., Chairman of the Granville County Board of Elections; Helen Amis; Karen W. Brown, Members of the Granville County Board of Elections, and their successors and agents; Cindy Burnett, Supervisor of the Granville County Board of Elections, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 21, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Lee Hopper (Watkins, Finch & Hopper, Oxford, N.C., on brief), Michael Crowell (Tharrington, Smith & Hargrove, Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for defendants-appellants.

Leslie Jane Winner (Ferguson, Stein, Watt, Wallas & Adkins, P.A., Charlotte, N.C., on brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

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

JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the issue of the extent of a federal court's remedial power in reviewing a legislative plan designed, in response to the court's order, to remedy a stipulated violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended. 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (as amended). Based upon a stipulation that the challenged at-large method of electing members of the Granville County, North Carolina, Board of County Commissioners...

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