Legal Opinion
Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. Fayette County Board of Commissioners
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 7, 2015No. 14-11202, 14-11204PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILSON, Circuit Judge:
At the time this suit commenced, no African-American candidate had ever been elected to either the Fayette County Board of Commissioners (BOC) or the Fayette County Board of Education (BOE) in Fayette County, Georgia. The Georgia-State Conference of the NAACP, the Fay-ette County Branch of the NAACP, and ten individual African-American registered voters residing in Fayette County (collectively, Appellees) averred that Fayette County’s at-large election system violated Section Two (§ 2) of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) 1 by effectively guaranteeing that no African-American…
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