Jeffers v. Tucker

RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Circuit Judge.

In 1989, this Court found that portions of Arkansas’s 1981 state-legislative-redistricting plan violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Jeffers v. Clinton, 730 F.Supp. 196 (E.D.Ark.1989), aff'd mem., 498 U.S. 1019, 111 S.Ct. 662, 112 L.Ed.2d 656 (1991). In 1990, the Court ordered the State to remedy these violations by creating additional black-majority legislative districts. 740 F.Supp. 585 (E.D.Ark.1990), appeal dismissed on motion of appellants, 498 U.S. 1129, 111 S.Ct. 1096, 112 L.Ed.2d 1200 (1991). Later that year, we approved, with…