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CLARK v. CALHOUN COUNTY, MISS.

No. 95-60251.

88 F.3d 1393 (1996)

James H. CLARK; Barbara Brown, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CALHOUN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI; Calhoun County Democratic Executive Committee, By and Through its Chairperson, J.R. Denton; Calhoun County Republican Executive Committee, By and Through its Chairperson, Henry Bailey; Calhoun County Election Commissions, By and Through its Chairperson, R.W. Bounds, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied August 5, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Bruce McDuff, Jackson, MS, Ellis F. Turnage, Cleveland, MS, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Clifton R. Easley, Jr., Easley & Cooper, Bruce, MS, Shelby Duke Goza, Oxford, MS, Benjamin Elmo Griffith, Griffith and Griffith, Cleveland, MS, Henry L. Lackey, Calhoun City, MS, for defendants-appellees.

Lawrence Chandler, Hernando, MS, for Calhoun County Democratic Executive Committee, by and through its Chairperson, J.R. Denton, defendant-appellee.

Before LAY, HIGGINBOTHAM and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied August 5, 1996.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

This case comes before us for the second time, raising the question whether the plaintiffs have proven, under the totality of the circumstances, that Calhoun County, Mississippi's districting plan for county officials violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1973(a). The district court held that the plan did not violate...

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