WHITFIELD v. DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF STATE OF ARK.

No. 88-1953.

890 F.2d 1423 (1989)

Sam WHITFIELD, Jr., and Linda Whitfield, P.L. Perkins, Julious McGruder, Georgia M. Varner, Annie Sykes, Ollie Jennings, Sam Bennett, Appellants, v. The DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF the STATE OF ARKANSAS, The State of Arkansas Democratic Central Committee, The Phillips County Democratic Central Committee, Phillips County Republican Party Committee, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 7, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol Lani Guinier, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellants.

Tim Humphries, Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

Before BEAM, Circuit Judge, BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge and HANSON, District Judge.


BEAM, Circuit Judge.

Whitfield and other appellants, black voters in Phillips County, Arkansas, challenge the district court's dismissal of their complaint. Whitfield sued the Democratic Party of Arkansas and others, alleging that a state statute which requires a general (runoff) primary election if one candidate does not receive a majority of the vote is both unconstitutional and in violation of section 2 et seq. of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. §...

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