Navajo Nation v. San Juan County

MORITZ, Circuit Judge.

In 2012, the Navajo Nation and several of its individual members (collectively, the Navajo Nation) sued San Juan County, alleging that the election districts for both the school board and the county commission violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, 52 U.S.C. §§ 10301 -14 (transferred from 42 U.S.C. §§ 1973 - 1973o ). The district court denied the county's motion to dismiss, found that the election districts violated the Equal Protection Clause, and awarded summary…