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DAVIDSON v. CITY OF CRANSTON, RHODE ISLAND

No. 16-1692.

837 F.3d 135 (2016)

Karen L. DAVIDSON; Debbie Flitman; Eugene Perry; Sylvia Weber; American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, Inc., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. CITY OF CRANSTON, RHODE ISLAND, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

September 21, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Normand G. Benoit , with whom David J. Pellegrino , Robert K. Taylor , and Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP, Providence, RI, were on brief, for appellant.

Adam Lioz , Washington, DC, with whom Brenda Wright , Boston, MA, Dēmos , Dale Ho , Sean J. Young , American Civil Liberties Union, Lynette J. Labinger , and Roney & Labinger, LLP, Providence, RI, were on brief, for appellees.

Christina Swarns , Sherrilyn Ifill , Janai Nelson , Leah C. Aden , Coty Montag , Juan Cartagena , Jose L. Perez , Joanna E. Cuevas Ingram , Rebecca R. Ramaswamy , Danielle C. Gray , New York, NY, Samantha M. Goldstein , and O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, DC, on brief for NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., LatinoJustice PRLDEF, Direct Action for Rights and Equality, and Voice of the Ex-Offender, amici curiae.

Patrick Llewellyn , Aderson B. Francois , Yael Bromberg , and Institute for Public Representation, Georgetown University Law Center on brief for Former Directors of the U.S. Census Bureau, amici curiae.

Before Howard, Chief Judge, Lynch and Kayatta, Circuit Judges.

The City of Cranston appeals from an injunction, entered by the district court, forbidding the City from holding elections based on its 2012 Redistricting Plan and ordering it to prepare a new redistricting plan within thirty days. The district court held that the inclusion in the Redistricting Plan of 3,433 inmates of the...

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