Regionald Seastrunk v. Gerald Burns

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the district court’s approval of a reapportionment plan adopted by the Vernon Parish, Louisiana School Board. Appellants, black residents of the Parish, alleged that the plan violated their rights under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, and did not meet the standards required by the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973, as amended in 1982. The district court determined that it had not been shown that the School Board’s plan violated appellants’ rights under the Constitution, or failed to meet Voting Rights…