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JOHNSON v. HAMRICK

No. 01-14940.

296 F.3d 1065 (2002)

Rose JOHNSON, Willie Fay Bush, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. Robert HAMRICK, Emily Lawson, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 5, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anita S. Hodgkiss, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Jacqueline Rubin, Asst. Fed. Pub. Def., Miami, FL, John M. Clark, Elberton, GA, Willie James Woodruff, Jr., Toccoa, GA, Richard D. Mosier, Sunil R. Kulkarni, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

Robert Maddox Brinson, David Clarence Smith, J. Anderson Davis, Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis LLP, Rome, GA, for Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

Kevin K. Russell, Mark L. Gross, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Intervenor.

Before BARKETT and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and HIGHSMITH, District Judge.

MARCUS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs Rose Johnson, et al., a group of African-American citizens of Gainesville, Georgia, appeal the district court's judgment in favor of Defendants Robert Hamrick, et al., members of the Gainesville City Commission, on the plaintiffs' civil rights challenge to Gainesville's atlarge method of electing city council members. See Johnson v. Hamrick, 155 F.Supp.2d 1355 (N.D.Ga.2001). This appeal...

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