Legal Opinion
David Baird v. The Consolidated City of Indianapolis
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 30, 1992No. 91-3700PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
There are 29 seats in the City-County Council of Marion County in Indiana, a consolidated government comprising metropolitan Indianapolis. State law requires Marion County to elect 25 persons from single-member districts and the other 4 at large. Ind.Code §§ 36-3-4-2(a), 36-3-4-3(b). Until recently only four of the single-member districts (13.8% of the 29 seats) had majorities of black voters, although 21.28% of the county’s population (and 19.-28% of its voting-age population) is black. Five registered black voters in Marion County (three of whom sit on the…
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