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MALLORY v. STATE OF OHIO

No. 97-4425.

173 F.3d 377 (1999)

William MALLORY, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The State of OHIO, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 13, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Randolph (briefed), Cincinnati, OH, Thomas I. Atkins (briefed), Brooklyn, NY, James L. Hardiman (argued and briefed), Hardiman, Buchanan, Howland & Trivers, Michele R. Comer (briefed), Cleveland, OH, for Plaintiffs-Appellants William Mallory, Hazel L. Bland, Charles W. Cross, Robert Dogan, Donald H. Ells, Jessie Gooding, Jeffrey D. Johnson, Casey C. Jones, C Prentiss, Deborah Stokes-Abraham and Vernon Sykes.

Thomas I. Atkins, Brooklyn, NY, James L. Hardiman, Hardiman, Buchanan, Howland & Trivers, Cleveland, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellant Gladys M. Walcott.

Norton Victor Goodman (argued and briefed), Orla E. Collier, III (briefed), Mark D. Tucker (briefed), John F. Stock (briefed), Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, Columbus, OH, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: SILER, DAUGHTREY, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

GILMAN, Circuit Judge.

William Mallory and eleven other plaintiffs, representing a class comprised of the voting-age population of African-Americans entitled to vote in judicial elections in eight of Ohio's largest counties ("the class"), sued the state of Ohio for alleged violations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973. The class alleged that Ohio's "at-large" election system for judges impermissibly...

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