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TEAGUE v. ATTALA COUNTY, MISS.

No. 95-60204.

92 F.3d 283 (1996)

Bernard TEAGUE, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America, Intervenor Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ATTALA COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 8, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Benjamin Elmo Griffith, Griffith and Griffith, Cleveland, MS, John Edgar Shaw, Kosciusko, MS, for defendants-appellees.

Deval L. Patrick, Asst. Atty. Gen., Steven H. Rosenbaum, Elizabeth Johnson, Rebecca J. Wertz, and Steven J. Mulroy, United States Dept. of Justice, for plaintiff-intervenor-appellant the U.S.

Before LAY, HIGGINBOTHAM and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

STEWART, Circuit Judge:

This is our second opportunity to consider the allegation that Attala County's districting plans for the election of county supervisors and county constables dilute minority voting strength.1 Plaintiffs initially alleged violations of both § 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. 1973, and the one person-one vote principle of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Following a hearing,...

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