Armour v. State of Ohio

BATCHELDER, District Judge,

dissenting.*

I. Introduction

Plaintiffs in this case bring two claims, one for violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1973, and the other for violation of the Fifteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. I conclude that neither of these claims can be established based on the evidence presented here, and even construing the evidence as the majority construes it, neither the statute nor the 15th Amendment can be found to have been violated by the district line challenged by plaintiffs in this case. I therefore respectfully…