Ernest White v. City of Belzoni, Mississippi

JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

The City of Belzoni asks in this appeal that we declare invalid a district court order adopting single-member districts for the City’s interim aldermanic election. The court-ordered plan in terms governed only the interim election. Further, the City has made it clear that it is not asking that the interim election be invalidated or the incumbent winners of that election be unseated. Under these circumstances we dismiss this appeal as moot.

Black voters of Belzoni, Mississippi brought this vote dilution class action against the City of Belzoni, in January of…