THOMAS v. BRYANT

No. 19-60133.

938 F.3d 134 (2019)

Joseph THOMAS; Vernon Ayers; Melvin Lawson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Phil BRYANT, Governor of the State of Mississippi, all in the official capacities of their own offices and in their official capacities as members of the State Board of Election Commissioners; Delbert Hosemann, Secretary of State of the State of Mississippi, all in the official capacities of their own offices and in their official capacities as members of the State Board of Election Commissioners, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED September 3, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Bruce McDuff, Esq. , Beth Levine Orlansky , Mississippi Center for Justice, Jackson, MS, Arusha Gordon, Jon Marshall Greenbaum, Esq. , Director, Ezra D. Rosenberg, Esq. , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, Caitlyn E. Silhan , Waters & Kraus, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, Ellis Turnage, Cleveland, MS, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Michael Brunson Wallace, Esq. , Charles Edward Cowan , Wise Carter Child & Caraway, P.A., Jackson, MS, Brian Parker Berry , Tommie S. Cardin , Butler Snow, L.L.P., Ridgeland, MS, for Defendants Appellants.

Joseph Henry Ros, Esq. , Currie, Johnson & Myers, P.A., Biloxi, MS, Amicus Curiae for JUDICIAL WATCH, INCORPORATED.

Before DAVIS, HIGGINSON, and WILLETT, Circuit Judges.


Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended in 1982, prohibits state and political subdivisions from redistricting "in a manner which results" in members of a protected class of racial and language minorities "hav[ing] less opportunity than other members of the...

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