JOHNSON v. MORTHAM

No. TCA 94-40025-MMP.

915 F.Supp. 1574 (1996)

Andrew E. JOHNSON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Sandra MORTHAM, etc., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Florida, Tallahassee Division.

February 7, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald J. Sullivan, Jr., Sullivan & Boyd, Jacksonville, FL, for plaintiffs.

Stephen N. Zack, Pro Hac Vice, Miami, FL, Brenda Wright, Pro Hac Vice, Jackqueline A. Berrien, Pro Hac Vice, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law, Washington, DC, Gerald B. Curington, General Counsel, House of Representatives, Tallahassee, FL, for Pat Thomas.

Richard A. Hixson, Tallahassee, FL, Thomas R. Tedcastle, Florida House of Representatives, Tallahassee, FL, Stephen N. Zack, Pro Hac Vice, Miami, FL, Brenda Wright, Pro Hac Vice, Jackqueline A. Berrien, Pro Hac Vice, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law, Washington, DC, Gerald B. Curington, B. Elaine New, General Counsel, House of Representatives, Tallahassee, FL, for Bolley L. Johnson.

George L. Waas, Attorney General's Office, Department of Legal Affairs, Tallahassee, FL, David Alan Tepper, Department of State, Office of the General Counsel, Tallahassee, FL, for Sandra Mortham.

Brenda Wright, Pro Hac Vice, Todd A. Cox, Pro Hac Vice, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law, Washington, DC, for Frank Cummings.

Brenda Wright, Pro Hac Vice, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law, Washington, DC, for Samuel L. Green, Sr., Leonard O'Neal, Glynell Presley, and Mary Lawson Brown.

Rodney G. Gregory, Jacksonville, FL, J. Gerald Hebert, Pro Hac Vice, Alexandria, VA, for Corrine Brown.

Charles G. Burr, Tampa, FL, for Florida State Conference of NAACP Branches.

Before HATCHETT, Circuit Judge, PAUL, Chief District Judge, and VINSON, District Judge.


ORDER

PAUL, Chief Judge:

On January 12, 1996, the Court ordered the parties in this cause to fully brief the status of the burden of proof in the strict scrutiny context (Doc. 117). The following parties filed briefs on the issue: Plaintiffs (Doc. 122); Defendant-Intervenors Cummings and Brown (Doc. 123); Defendant-Intervenor United States (Doc. 125); Defendant Mortham (Doc. 126); and Defendant-Intervenor NAACP (Doc. 128). Not surprisingly, Plaintiffs...

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