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GEORGE v. CITY OF COCOA, FLA.

No. 94-3453.

78 F.3d 494 (1996)

Mary GEORGE; Charles L. Stovall; Martha Ray Bethel; W.O. Wells, Reverend; Joann Stovall; Barbara Jenkins; Sylvester Weaver, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF COCOA, FLORIDA: Cocoa City Council; Lester Campbell, Mayor-Councilmember of the City of Cocoa; Ray Debord, John Lee Blubach, Dave Salisbury, members of the Cocoa City Council, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Ray Griffin, Member of the Cocoa City Council; Fred Galey, Brevard County Supervisor of Elections, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 29, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cristina Correia, Florida Rural Legal Services, Inc., Tallahassee, FL and Jacqueline A. Berrien, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., New York City, for appellants.

Bradly Roger Bettin, Amari, Theriac & Eisenmenger, P.A., Cocoa, FL, for appellees.

George N. Meros, Jr. and Mary W. Chaisson, Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, for all amicus.

Before ANDERSON and BLACK, Circuit Judges, and HENDERSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:

This case comes to us on appeal from the district court's order denying the parties' joint motion to approve a consent decree and enter judgment. We have jurisdiction and for the reasons set forth in this opinion, we reverse and remand for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.

Factual and Procedural Background

On April 12, 1993, appellants filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Middle District...

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