Legal Opinion
Cleveland County Ass'n v. Cleveland County Board of Commissioners
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 1, 1998No. 97-7097PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Per curiam
As part of the settlement of a suit brought by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (“the NAACP”) that challenged the method of voting for members of the Board of Commissioners of Cleveland County, North Carolina (“the Board”), the Board agreed to adopt a plan that increased its size from five to seven members and provided that voters would be permitted to cast only four votes for the seven positions. The settlement further provided that until elections could be held to fill the two additional slots, these positions would be filled by appointees who were…
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