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JEFFERS v. BEEBE

No. 2:12CV00016 JLH.

895 F.Supp.2d 920 (2012)

Future Mae JEFFERS; Mary Jeffers; Henry Peacock; Shirley Harvell; Rev. Ronald Williams; Peggy R. Wright; Laura Love; Frank Shaw; C.W. Campbell; Leo Chitman; Etta Campbell; Plez Lucas; Vickie Robertson; Joseph Perry; Elbert Smith; Sandra Bagley; Nikki Dismuke; Alice W. Valley; Laketha Brown Fluker; Katrina Harrell; Chester Harrell; Eddie O'Neal; Christopher Franklin; and Jack Bernard Crumbly, Plaintiffs v. Mike BEEBE, in his capacity as Governor of Arkansas and Chairman of the Arkansas Board of Apportionment; Mark Martin, in his capacity as Secretary of State of Arkansas and as a member of the Arkansas Board of Apportionment; Dustin McDaniel, in his capacity as Attorney General of Arkansas and a member of the Arkansas Board of Apportionment; and Arkansas Board of Apportionment, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Helena Division.

September 17, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. F. Valley , J. F. Valley, Esq., P.A., Helena, AR, Peter S. Wattson , Attorney at Law, Shorewood, MN, for Plaintiffs.

C. Joseph Cordi, Jr. , David A. Curran , Warren Taylo Readnour , Arkansas Attorney General's Office, Little Rock, AR, W. Asa Hutchinson , W. Asa Hutchinson, III , Kristi Hunter , The Asa Hutchinson Law Group, PLC, Rogers, AR, for Defendants.

Before Three Judge Panel District Judge HOLMES, Circuit Judge SMITH, and District Judge WRIGHT.

OPINION

LAVENSKI R. SMITH, District Judge.

Following the 2010 census, the Arkansas Board of Apportionment1 ("Board"), consisting of Governor Mike Beebe, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, and Secretary of State Mark Martin, adopted by a 2-to-1 vote a plan of reapportionment for the Arkansas General Assembly. Relevant to the present dispute, this plan created new Arkansas State Senate ("Senate") District 24, which consists...

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