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BROOKS v. GEORGIA STATE BD. OF ELECTIONS

No. 94-8398.

59 F.3d 1114 (1995)

Tyrone BROOKS, Lanette Stanley, Billy McKinney, Joe Beasley, Venus E. Holmes, Michael Robinson, Edward Brown, John White, Mary Young-Cummings, Mary Black, Willie Mays, William Young, Deanie Frazier, G.L. Avery, Rev., Rev. Dr. William Howell, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellants, Donale E. Cheeks, Emil Klingenfus, Inez Wylds, Richard Dyson, Vince Robertson, Intervenors-Plaintiffs, Cross-Claimants, v. GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, Max Cleland, Secretary of State and Chairman of the Georgia State Board of Elections, Defendants-Cross-Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 17, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laughlin McDonald, Neil Bradley, Mary Wyckoff, ACLU, Atlanta, GA, for appellants.

David Frank Walbert, Walbert & Herman, Atlanta, GA, for appellees.

Carol Atha Cosgrove, Atlanta, GA, for Ga. State Bd. and Max Cleland.

Charles L. Wilkinson, III, Stanley C. House, Augusta, GA, for Donald Cheeks, et al.

Randal Mangham, Randal A. Mangham, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for other interested parties.

Before DUBINA, Circuit Judge, RONEY and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judges.

DUBINA, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs/Appellants, a group of black registered voters in the State of Georgia ("Plaintiffs"), appeal the district court's order denying their motion for approval of a proposed settlement agreement with Defendants/Appellees, the Georgia State Board of Elections et al. ("Defendants" or "the state"), in this action under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1973c (1988). The settlement agreement is opposed by...

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