Barney QUILTER, et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
George V. VOINOVICH, et al., Defendants.
United States District Court, N.D. Ohio, Eastern Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
August 22, 1997.
August 22, 1997.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Timothy F. Scanlon, Scanlon & Gearinger, Akron, OH, Armistead W. Gilliam, Jr., Ann Wightman, Faruki, Gilliam & Ireland, Dayton, OH, for Barney Quilter, Thomas E. Ferguson, Glen Achtermann, Sam Barone, Sandra Guy, Robert McLaughlin, James B. McCarthy, Gladys Henson, Tom Kilbane, Robert H. Trainer, A. Wane Bussler, James P. Speros, Kenneth Thorne, Charles Walker, William Shanklin, Clarence Lumpkin, Tyrone Riley.
Timothy F. Scanlon, Scanlon & Gearinger, Akron, OH, Thomas I. Atkins, Sr., Brooklyn, NY, Armistead W. Gilliam, Jr., Ann Wightman, Laura A. Sanom, Faruki, Gilliam & Ireland, Dayton, OH, for William L. Mallory.
Orla Ellis Collier, III, Norton Victor Goodman, James F. DeLeone, Mark D. Tucker, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, Columbus, OH, Charles M. Rosenberg, Maynard A. Buck, III, Jeremy Gilman, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, Cleveland, OH, for George V. Voinovich, Stanley J. Aronoff, Robert A. Taft, II.
Charles M. Rosenberg, Maynard A. Buck, III, Jeremy Gilman, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, Cleveland, OH, for James R. Tilling.
Jack Gregg Haught, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, Columbus, OH, Andrew S. Bergman, Office of Atty. Gen., Columbus, OH, for State of Ohio, party in interest.
Elizabeth Johnson, Rebecca J. Wertz, Daniel H. Claman, Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., for U.S.
Armistead W. Gilliam, Jr., Ann Wightman, Faruki, Gilliam & Ireland, Dayton, OH, for Paul Mechling, Mary Abel, Ronald Gerberry, Richard Cordray.
Before JONES and MOORE, Circuit Judges, and DOWD, District Judge.
United States District Court, N.D. Ohio, Eastern Division.
OPINION
MOORE, Circuit Judge.
The question before this court is whether the Ohio Apportionment Board's consideration of race in its 1992 redistricting plan violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. We hold that because the plaintiffs have failed to make a threshold showing that the defendants subordinated traditional districting principles to consideration of race, strict scrutiny...
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