Cousin v. McWherter

ORDER

HULL, District Judge.

This voting rights action is before the Court on remand from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals for specific findings of fact and conclusions of law. Plaintiffs brought this action alleging violations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973 and the fifteenth amendment of the United States Constitution. Plaintiffs are black adult residents and voters in Hamilton County, Tennessee.

Plaintiffs instituted this action on August 31, 1990. Plaintiffs allege that Hamilton County’s use of at-large elections for judges of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of…