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BAIRD v. CONSOLIDATED CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS

No. 91-3700.

976 F.2d 357 (1992)

David BAIRD, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The CONSOLIDATED CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 30, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Groth (argued), Fillenwarth, Dennerline, Groth & Towe, Stephen Laudig, Indianapolis, Ind., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Alan W. Becker, George T. Patton, Wayne C. Ponader (argued), Jeffrey S. Koehlinger, Bose, McKinney & Evans, Margo Barber, Marion County Legal Div., Susan L. Williams, David L. Rimstidt, Rimstidt, Yackey & Ladd, Gary R. Landau, Indianapolis, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUDAHY and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges, and WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

There are 29 seats in the City-County Council of Marion County in Indiana, a consolidated government comprising metropolitan Indianapolis. State law requires Marion County to elect 25 persons from single-member districts and the other 4 at large. Ind.Code §§ 36-3-4-2(a), 36-3-4-3(b). Until recently only four of the single-member districts (13.8% of the 29 seats) had majorities of black voters, although 21.28% of the county's population...

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