DAVIS v. CHILES

No. 96-3547.

139 F.3d 1414 (1998)

Anita DAVIS, Lee E. Harris, Lafaye Denise Birch, Malachi Andrews, Kim T. Lyles, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Lawton CHILES; Sandra Mortham, Florida Secretary of State; David Rancourt, Director, Division of Elections, Florida Department of State, Defendants-Appellees, Jim Smith, Dot Joyce, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 30, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brenda Wright, Todd A. Cox, Edward Still, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Robert B. McDuff, Jackson, MS, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

George L. Waas, Denis Dean, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of the Florida Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, Mitchell D. Franks, Lane, Trohn, Clarke, Bertrand, Vreeland & Jacobsen, Lakeland, FL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before BIRCH, Circuit Judge, FAY, Senior Circuit Judge, and COHILL, Senior District Judge.


BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

In this case we review plaintiff-appellants' challenge to two at-large judicial election districts in Florida under Section Two of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973 ("Section Two"). Although the district court found that racially polarized voting plagued the electoral systems at issue, it granted judgment to the defendant-appellees on the ground that Florida's interest in maintaining its current system of selecting judges outweighs...

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