Legal Opinion
Burton v. City of Belle Glade
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 25, 1999No. 97-5091PublishedCited by 393 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARCUS, Circuit Judge:
Appellants, three African-American tenants of the Okeechobee Center, a housing project located in unincorporated Palm Beach County, and four African-American residents of the City of Belle Glade, brought this lawsuit alleging that the City of Belle Glade unlawfully deprived them of their right to vote in failing to annex the Okeechobee Center into the City. Specifically, Appellants contend that the City failed to annex the housing project for racial reasons in violation of the First, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution,…
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