Civil Rights
Block on Trump's Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court
In an action under the Voting Rights Act concerning the drawing of districts for municipal elections, judgment for defendants is affirmed where: 1) plaintiffs failed to present evidence constituting a redistricting plan that would have shown either the factual or legal possibility of creating a majority-minority district by dividing college dormitory students among the city's wards; and 2) the district court did not clearly err in its use of total voting age population in making its computations.
Read Fairley v. Hattiesburg, No. 08-60942
Appellate Information
Filed September 29, 2009
Judges
Opinion by Judge Smith