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MISSOURI CONF. NAACP v. FERGUSON-FLORISSANT SCH.

No. 16-4511.

894 F.3d 924 (2018)

MISSOURI STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE; Redditt Hudson; F. Willis Johnson; Doris Bailey, Plaintiffs-Appellees v. FERGUSON-FLORISSANT SCHOOL DISTRICT, Defendant-Appellant. St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners, Defendant. Missouri School Boards' Association, Amicus on Behalf of Appellant(s).

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: July 3, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grant R. Doty , EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Saint Louis, MO, Julie A. Ebenstein , Dale E. Ho , AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, ACLU of New York, New York, NY, Michael Keith Hill , MISSOURI STATE PUBLIC DEFENDER, Kansas City, MO, Sophia Lin Lakin , AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, New York, NY, M. Laughlin McDonald , AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, ACLU of Northern California, San Francisco, CA, Andrew McNulty , Anthony E. Rothert , Jessie M. Steffan , AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSOURI FOUNDATION, Saint Louis, MO, Gillian R. Wilcox , ACLU OF MISSOURI FOUNDATION, Kansas City, MO, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Angela Gabel , ABG LAW OFFICE, Clayton, MO, Cindy Reeds Ormsby , CROTZER & ORMSBY, Saint. Louis, MO, John A. Safarli , FLOYD & PFLUEGER, Seattle, WA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Kelli Hopkins , MISSOURI SCHOOL BOARDS' ASSOCIATION, Columbia, MO, for Amicus on Behalf of Appellant(s) Missouri School Boards' Association.

Before SMITH, Chief Judge, ARNOLD and KELLY, Circuit Judges.

The Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the other named plaintiffs (together, the NAACP) sued the Ferguson-Florissant School District (FFSD, or the district) for vote dilution under section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), 52 U.S.C § 10301. After a bench...

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