White v. State of Ala.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

DUBINA, Circuit Judge:

I. BACKGROUND

This three-judge court was convened in accordance with Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973c, for the pur­pose of deciding a lawsuit that challenges the method of electing appellate judges in the State of Alabama. The plaintiffs—a class of African-American resident citizens and electors of the State of Alabama—filed suit alleging that the expansion of the Alabama Supreme Court in 1969 and the creation and expansion of the Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals in 1969, 1971, and 1993, have never been precleared by the United…