United States v. Village of Port Chester

OPINION AND ORDER

STEPHEN C. ROBINSON, District Judge.

On January 17, 2008, the Court found that Plaintiffs had demonstrated that the Village of Port Chester’s at-large voting system for electing its Board of Trustees violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After careful consideration of the parties’ proposed remedial plans, the Court issued a summary order on November 6, 2009 concluding that Defendant, the Village, had proposed a legally acceptable remedy and ordered the implementation of at-large elections with cumulative voting. In furtherance of the implementation, the parties…