SMITH v. CLARK

No. CIV.A. 3:01-CV-855WS.

189 F.Supp.2d 529 (2002)

John Robert SMITH, Shirley Hall, and Gene Walker plaintiffs v. Eric CLARK, Secretary of State of Mississippi; Mike Moore, Attorney General for the State of Mississippi; Ronnie Musgrove, Governor of Mississippi; Mississippi Republican Executive Committee; and Mississippi Democratic Executive Committee Defendants Beatrice Branch; Rims Barber; L.C. Dorsey; David Rule; James Woodard; Joseph P. Hudson; and Robert Norvel Intervenors

United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

February 19, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur F. Jernigan, Jr., Watson & Jernigan, P.A., Jackson, for John Robert Smith, Shirley Hall, Gene Walker, plaintiffs.

T. Hunt Cole, Jr., Office of the Attorney General, Michael B. Wallace, Phelps Dunbar, John G. Jones, Jones & Funderburg, Herbert Lee, Jr., Lee & Associates, Robert B. McDuff, Robert B. McDuff, Attorney, Jackson, for Eric Clark, Secretary of State of Mississippi, Mike Moore, Attorney General for the State of Mississippi, Ronnie Musgrove, Governor of Mississippi, the Mississippi Republican Party Executive Committee, Mississippi Democratic Party Executive Committee, defendants.

E. GRADY JOLLY, United States Circuit Judge, HENRY T. WINGATE, United States District Judge and DAVID C. BRAMLETTE, United States District Judge.


OPINION

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge.

This opinion follows the trial in this matter on January 28 and 29, 2002, and our order of February 4, 2002, which attached the proposed congressional redistricting plan that we had drafted. We stated in that order that we proposed to implement that plan, absent timely pre-clearance by the Department of Justice of the plan adopted by the Hinds County Chancery Court. We...

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