HARVELL v. BLYTHEVILLE SCHOOL DIST. # 5

No. 93-1009.

33 F.3d 910 (1994)

Shirley M. HARVELL; Emmanuel Lofton, Reverend; Hattie Middlebrook; Mary Alice Jones; Jacquelin Henton, Appellants, v. BLYTHEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT # 5, A Public Body Corporate; William Tomlinson, Individually and as Board Member; Norvell Moore, Individually and as Board Member; William Sullivan, Individually and as Board Member; Harold Sudbury, Jr., Individually and as Board Member; Helen Nunn, Individually and as Board Member; Karen Fraser, Individually and as Board Member; Steve Littrell, Individually and as Board Member; William Stovall, III, also known as Bill Stovell, Individually and as Board Member; Blytheville School District # 5, Board of Directors; Dr. Frank Ladd, Individually and in his official capacity as Superintendent of Blytheville School District No. 5, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 24, 1994.

Rehearing Granted, Opinion and Judgment Vacated November 16, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Terry Burnette, Little Rock, AR, argued (John Walker, on the brief), for appellants.

Robert V. Light, Little Rock, AR, argued, for appellees.

Before WOLLMAN and LOKEN, Circuit Judges, and HUNTER, Senior District Judge.


WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

Shirley Harvell and other voters in the Blytheville School District appeal from the district court's order and supplemental findings of fact dismissing their Voting Rights Act complaint following our remand in Harvell v. Ladd, 958 F.2d 226 (8th Cir.1992). The defendants cross-appeal from the district court's denial of their motion for attorneys' fees and Rule 11 sanctions. We affirm in part and reverse...

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