COLLINS v. CITY OF NORFOLK, VA.

No. 88-3950.

883 F.2d 1232 (1989)

Herbert M. COLLINS; H. Marks S. Richard; Barbara C. Parham; William E. Swindell, Jr.; Milton A. Reid; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Norfolk Branch; George Banks; Julian Hazel, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, a municipal corporation; Mason C. Andrews; Joseph A. Leafe; Joseph N. Green, Jr.; Claude J. Staylor, Jr.; Robert E. Summers; Elizabeth M. Howell, members of the Norfolk City Council; City of Norfolk Electoral Board; Paul D. Fraim; Martha H. Boone; Paul M. Lipkin, members of the City of Norfolk Electoral Board; Vincent J. Thomas, Mayor of the City of Norfolk, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 18, 1989.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied September 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank Ruff Parker (William L. Robinson, Samuel Issacharoff, Lawyers' Committee for Civ. Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C., James F. Gay, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert Harvey Chappell, Jr. (Paul W. Jacobs, II, Christian, Barton, Epps, Brent & Chappell, Richmond, Va., Philip R. Trapani, Harold P. Juren, Office of City Atty., Norfolk, Va., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before MURNAGHAN and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied September 27, 1989.

BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge:

Seven black citizens of Norfolk, Virginia, and the Norfolk Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People appeal the district court's judgment denying their claim that the at-large system of voting for city council violates rights secured by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as amended in 1982, 42 U.S.C. § 1973. The principal issue is whether...

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