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SENSLEY v. ALBRITTON

No. 03-30866.

385 F.3d 591 (2004)

Willie SENSLEY; William Washington; Ralph Holley; David Wine, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Jabo ALBRITTON, In His Official Capacity as a Member of the Union Parish Police Jury; Johnny Buckley, In His Official Capacity as a Member of the Union Parish Police Jury; Keith Byram, In His Official Capacity as a Member of the Union Parish Police Jury; Dewayne Hill, In His Official Capacity as a Member of the Union Parish Police Jury; Jerry Holson, In His Official Capacity as a Member of the Union Parish Police Jury; Anna Milstead, In Her Official Capacity as a Member of the Union Parish Police Jury; Jerry Rugg, In His Official Capacity as a Member of the Union Parish Police Jury; Danny Smith, In His Official Capacity as a Member of the Union Parish Police Jury, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 28, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Loy Hurd (argued), Monroe, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Joseph Marcellus Bertrand (argued), Joseph M. Bertrand & Associates, R. Scott Buhrer, Flander & Buhrer, Metairie, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before JOLLY, DAVIS and JONES, Circuit Judges.

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

Residents of Union Parish, Louisiana appeal the dismissal of their vote dilution challenge under § 2 of the Voting Rights Act to a redistricting plan for electing parish police jury members, a plan that continued to provide two black-majority districts instead of expanding to include three. The district court found that the plaintiffs failed to prove that the African-American population of the parish was sufficiently geographically...

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