Addy v. NEWTON COUNTY, MISS.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

TOM S. LEE, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs, residents of Newton County’s Supervisor District One, a majority-minority district that was created for the purpose of remedying a violation of § 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973 et seq. in accordance with a 1989 consent decree entered by this court, filed this suit contending that the district was racially gerrymandered in contravention of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Plaintiffs have maintained that the district is unconstitutional according to the principles established by Shaw v. Reno,…