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PENDER COUNTY v. BARTLETT

No. 103A06.

649 S.E.2d 364 (2007)

PENDER COUNTY, Dwight Strickland, individually and as a Pender County Commissioner, David Williams, individually and as a Pender County Commissioner, F.D. Rivenbark, individually and as a Pender County Commissioner, Stephen Holland, individually and as a Pender County Commissioner, and Eugene Meadows, individually and as a Pender County Commissioner v. Gary BARTLETT, as Executive Director of the North Carolina State Board of Elections; Larry Leake, Robert Cordle, Genevieve C. Sims, Lorraine G. Shinn, and Charles Winfree, in their official capacities as members of the State Board of Elections; James B. Black, in his official capacity as Co-Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives; Richard T. Morgan, in his official capacity as Co-Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives; Marc Basnight, in his official capacity as President Pro Tempore of the North Carolina Senate; Michael Easley, in his official capacity as Governor of the State of North Carolina; and Roy Cooper, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the State of North Carolina.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

August 24, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl W. Thurman III, Wilmington, for plaintiff-appellants Dwight Strickland, David Williams, and Stephen Holland, in their individual capacities.

Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Tiare B. Smiley and Alexander McC. Peters, Special Deputy Attorneys General, for defendant-appellees.

Center for Civil Rights, University of North Carolina School of Law, by Anita S. Earls, Chapel Hill, for Cindy Moore, Milford Farrior, and Mary Jordan, amici curiae.

EDMUNDS, Justice.

In this case, we consider whether the current geographic configuration and racial composition of North Carolina House District 18 as established by the North Carolina General Assembly was required by Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.1 We conclude that the Voting Rights Act did not mandate the creation of a Section 2 "crossover" district and that House District 18...

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