JOHNSON v. MILLER

Civil Action No. CV 196-40.

929 F.Supp. 1529 (1996)

Davida JOHNSON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Zell MILLER, et al., Defendants, and Lucious Abrams, Jr., et al., Intervenors-Defendants, and United States of America, Intervenor-Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. Georgia, Augusta Division.

As Corrected June 18, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Rowland Dye, Dye, Tucker, Everitt, Wheale & Long, Augusta, GA, A. Lee Parks, Kirwan, Goger, Chesin & Parks, Atlanta, GA, for Davida Johnson, Joanne Murray Dixon, Mary S. Hargrove, Thomas M. Watkins, E.L. Lee, Craige Brooks, Billie Sue Thomson, Richard West, George Bagley, Dr., Curt Hamlin, Jimmy Rhodes, Ben Swilley, David A. Prisant, Earl C. Wetherington, Jr., Donald Shirah, C. Olen Gunnin, Jack H. Leverett, John Richard Sammons, Walter Matthews, Grace E. Durrence, Logan Lewis, Catherine Haley, Daniel Morrell, Tommy H. Hinton, Terri Ninsananda, Benjamin G. Spivey, Donald G. Sasser, Jim Grimshaw, John Danner, Terrell J. Embry, Greg Austin, Susan E. Rivers.

A. Lee Parks, Kirwan, Goger, Chesin & Parks, Atlanta, GA, for Jane A. Waldner, John E. Chance, Peggy A. Wood, Render Hill, Terri Ninsananda, Ann Miller.

David Frank Walbert, Walbert & Mathis, Atlanta, GA, for Zell Miller, Pierre Howard, Lewis Massey.

David Frank Walbert, Walbert & Mathis, Atlanta, GA, Sewell R. Brumby, Office of Legislative Counsel, Atlanta, GA, for Thomas Murphy.

Edmund Alexander Booth, Jr., United States Attorney, Augusta, GA, Donna M. Murphy, Elizabeth Johnson, Daniel H. Claman, Susan Barbosa Fisch, Richard B. Jerome, Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, DC, for United States of America.

Laughlin McDonald, American Civil Liberties Union, Inc., Atlanta, GA, for intervenors-defendants.

Before EDWARD E. CARNES, Circuit Judge, and BOWEN and JULIE E. CARNES, District Judges.


MEMORANDUM OPINION ON PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

PER CURIAM:

In this case ("Johnson III"),1 Plaintiffs challenge the constitutionality of certain State House and Senate legislative districts within the State of Georgia and seek preliminary injunctive relief enjoining Georgia's upcoming elections under the challenged districting plan.2 On April 30, 1996, this Court issued...

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