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FUSILIER v. LANDRY

No. 19-30665.

963 F.3d 447 (2020)

Vincent FUSILIER, Sr., Reverend; Lionel Myers; Wendell Desmond Shelby, Jr.; Daniel Turner, Jr.; Terrebonne Parish Branch NAACP, Plaintiffs-Appellees v. Jeffrey Martin LANDRY, Esq., Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, in his official capacity, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED June 29, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leah Camille Aden, Esq. , Janai S. Nelson, Esq. , Samuel Spital , NAACP, Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Incorporated, New York, NY, William Aaron Lesser , Cozen O'Connor, P.C., New York, NY, Michaele Turnage Young , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Incorporated, Washington, DC, Ronald Lawrence Wilson , New Orleans, LA, Michael B. de Leeuw , Cozen O'Connor, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Angelique Duhon Freel, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey M. Wale, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Louisiana Department of Justice, Baton Rouge, LA, Phillip Michael Gordon , Jason Brett Torchinsky , Holtzman Vogel Josefiak Torchinsky, P.L.L.C., Warrenton, VA, Elizabeth Baker Murrill, Esq. , Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, JONES, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.

African-American voters and the Terrebonne Parish NAACP filed suit in 2014 to challenge the electoral method for Louisiana's 32nd Judicial District Court ("32nd JDC"). They asserted that at-large elections for the judges produce discriminatory results, violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and have been maintained...

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