Legal Opinion
Sensley v. Albritton
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 28, 2004No. 03-30866PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
Residents of Union Parish, Louisiana appeal the dismissal of their vote dilution challenge under § 2 of the Voting Rights Act to a redistricting plan for electing parish police jury members, a plan that continued to provide two black-majority districts instead of expanding to include three. The district court found that the plaintiffs failed to prove that the African-American population of the parish was sufficiently geographically compact to support an additional black-majority district and, alternatively, found that the plaintiffs had failed to prove that…
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