John Dillard v. Baldwin County Commissioners

DUBINA, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal, we are confronted with the question of whether a federal court must award relief on a vote dilution claim brought under section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1973, where the circumstances of the case make clear that no form of relief available under section 2 will empower the protected minority group with any meaningful opportunity to elect the candidate of its choice. We answer the question in the negative and therefore affirm the district court’s order dissolving a permanent injunction that the district court had imposed on Appellee…