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WEST v. CLINTON

No. 91-2237.

786 F.Supp. 803 (1992)

Reverend G. Edward WEST; Reverend A.M. Smith; Reverend U.C. Washington; Reverend Gary Hinkle; Reverend Timothy Neal; Reverend B.U. Smith; and Reverend Alex Bray, Plaintiffs, v. Bill CLINTON, Governor of the State of Arkansas; William J. "Bill" McCuen, Secretary of State; Winston Bryant, Attorney General; Arkansas Board of Apportionment; Clifford H. Jeffords; James O. Cox; Eldon F. Coffman; and Sebastian County Board of Election Commissioners, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Arkansas, Fort Smith Division.

March 12, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Karr, Fort Smith, Ark., for plaintiffs.

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

Before RICHARD SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Chief Circuit Judge, H. FRANKLIN WATERS, Chief District Judge, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, District Judge.

RICHARD SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Chief Circuit Judge.

This is a suit under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973 et seq., challenging the multimember district for state representatives in a portion of Sebastian County, Arkansas.1 Voters in the district in question elect three members of the House of Representatives of the Arkansas General Assembly. The essential theory of the complaint is that this multimember arrangement...

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