CLEVELAND CTY. ASS'N FOR GOV'T v. CLEVELAND CTY. BD. OF COMMISSIONERS

Civil Action No. 96-1447.

965 F.Supp. 72 (1997)

CLEVELAND COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CLEVELAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

May 19, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil C. Williams, Horack Talley Pharr & Lowndes, Charlotte, NC, Robinson O. Everett, Durham, NC, for Cleveland County Association for Government by the People, Gaines B. Washburn, Lester D. Roak, Kyle Smith.

Neil C. Williams, Horack Talley Pharr & Lowndes, Charlotte, NC, for Sandra S. Allen, George H. Morris, Jr., Glenn A. Short.

Michael Crowell, Ruth Dowling, E. Hardy Lewis, Tharrington, Smith & Hargrove, Raleigh, NC, Julian B. Wray, Church, Paksoy & Wray, Shelby, NC, for Cleveland County Board of Commissioners, Cecil D. Dickson, Sam Gold, Edwin T. Vanhoy, Ralph L. Gilbert, James E. Crawley, Mary Accor, Bobby C. Malloy.

Elizabeth Johnson, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC, for U.S. amicus.

J. Gerald Herbert, Alexandria, VA, for Center for Voting and Democracy amicus.

Harvey Lloyd Pitt, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, Washington, DC, for Harvey L. Pitt amicus.

Kevin J. Lanigan, Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for National Association for Advancement of Colored People, M.L. Campbell, C.D. Montgomery, John N. Osborne, Jr., Eddie Evans, Jr., Maggie M. White, Robert E. Devoe, Julie C. Brooks, Clarence L. Brantley, Glenwood J. Carson.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

SPORKIN, District Judge.

The plaintiffs in this case are individual registered voters of Cleveland County, North Carolina, and the Cleveland County Association for Government by the People ("CCAGP"), an unincorporated association.1 This matter is before the Court now on (1) Plaintiffs' Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings or, in the alternative, for Summary Judgment; (2) Defendant Cleveland County Board...

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