Legal Opinion
United States v. Brown
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 27, 2009No. 07-60588PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge:
Defendants-Appellants Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee and its chairman, Ike Brown, are tasked, among other things, with organizing and orchestrating Noxubee County’s Democratic primary and runoff elections. After investigating the methods by which defendants conducted the county’s 2003 elections, the United States brought this suit on behalf of the county’s white voters — the minority in that county — for alleged violations of § 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The district court considered the evidence presented during a two-week bench trial and concluded that…
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