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NIXON v. KENT COUNTY

No. 93-1456.

76 F.3d 1381 (1996)

Debra NIXON, Johnny Griffin, Sr., Bill Brown, Juan Jimenez, Sara Ramirez, and Marshall Chavez, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. KENT COUNTY, Thomas Shearer, Maurice DeJonge, John Boerema, and William Forsyth, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 2, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David E. Hulswit, Jr. (argued and briefed), Pinsky, Smith, Fayette & Hulswit, Grand Rapids, MI, James R. Rinck (briefed), James R. Rinck Law Offices, Grand Rapids, MI, for Debra Nixon, Johnny Griffin, Sr., Bill Brown, Juan Jimenez, Sara Ramirez and Marshall Chavez.

Mark S. Allard (argued and briefed), Jon F. DeWitt, Kevin Abraham Rynbrandt, Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett, Grand Rapids, MI, for Kent County, Thomas Shearer, Maurice DeJonge, John Boerema, William A. Forsyth and Kent County Apportionment Com'n.

Jacqueline A. Berrien (argued and briefed), New York City, for NAACP Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, Inc.

Before: MERRITT, Chief Judge; KEITH, KENNEDY, MARTIN, JONES, MILBURN, NELSON, RYAN, BOGGS, NORRIS, SUHRHEINRICH, SILER, BATCHELDER, DAUGHTREY, and MOORE, Circuit Judges.

SUHRHEINRICH, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which MERRITT, C.J., KENNEDY, MILBURN, NELSON, RYAN, BOGGS, NORRIS, SILER, and BATCHELDER, JJ., joined. KEITH, J. (pp. 1393-1403), delivered a separate dissenting opinion, in which JONES and DAUGHTREY, JJ., joined and in which MARTIN and MOORE, JJ., joined in Parts I, II, and IIIA. MARTIN (p. 1403), JONES (pp. 1403-04), DAUGHTREY (p. 1404), and MOORE (p. 1404), JJ., delivered separate dissenting opinions, with Judge...

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