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WILLIAMS v. ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

No. 92-2283.

979 F.2d 1504 (1992)

Cornell WILLIAMS, individually and as chair of the Orange County Political Coalition; James Jackson, individually and as correspondence secretary for the Committee of Organized Groups ("COG"); Wardell Sims and James Q. Mitchell, individually and as past presidents of the Coalition, on Behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated to them in their individual capacities; and the aforementioned unincorporated associations, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. THE ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, including Commission Chair Hal Marston, former Commission Chair Tom Dorman, and Commissioners Linda Chapin, Vera Carter, and Bill Donegan, and their employees, assignees, and successors in office; Betty Carter, supervisor of elections, Orange County, Florida, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

December 28, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gabe H. Kaimowitz, Winter Park, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Arthur Bryant Applegate, Orange County Legal Dept., Orlando, Fla., Charles Gilbert Burr, Tampa, Fla., for defendants-appellees.

Before FAY, DUBINA and CARNES, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This appeal stems from a lawsuit brought by a plaintiff class composed of "all black citizens of Orange County, Florida, who were or could have been eligible to vote since 1980," against Orange County, Florida, and other defendants. The lawsuit, brought under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1978, and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, challenged the system of county government which consists of six...

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