CANE v. WORCESTER COUNTY, MD.

No. 94-1579.

35 F.3d 921 (1994)

Honiss W. CANE, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND; George M. Hurley; John E. Bloxom; Reginald T. Hancock; Floyd F. Bassett; Jeanne Lynch, Members, Worcester County Board of Commissioners, Defendants-Appellants, and George H. Dryden; Hinson Finney; Mark Frostrom, Defendants. Washington Legal Foundation; Center for Voting and Democracy; United States of America, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 16, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Benjamin E. Griffith, Griffith & Griffith, Cleveland, MS, for appellants. Charles Christopher Brown, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, Baltimore, MD, for appellee. ON BRIEF: Edward H. Hammond, Jr., Williams, Hammond, Moore, Shockley & Harrison, P.A., Ocean City, MD, for appellants. Deborah A. Jeon, American Civ. Liberties Union Foundation of Maryland, Centreville, MD, for appellee. Pamela Karlan, Charlottesville, VA; Edward Still, Birmingham, AL, for amicus curiae Center for Voting and Democracy; Deval L. Patrick, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jessica Dunsay Silver, Mark L. Gross, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae U.S.

Before WILKINS and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and ANDERSON, United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.


Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge WILKINS wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILLIAMS and Judge GEORGE ROSS ANDERSON joined.

OPINION

WILKINS, Circuit Judge:

Honiss W. Cane, Jr. and others1 brought this action on behalf of all African-American residents of Worcester County, Maryland (collectively "Plaintiffs"), claiming that the at...

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