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704 F.2d 143

Docket No. 80-7246.

Cross v. Baxter

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided April 19, 1983.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1983-04-19

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1997

8 federal appellate · 2 district ·

2 counsel of record

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)

Relies on City of Mobile v. Bolden · Rogers v. Lodge · Cross v. Baxter

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1983-04-19

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¶1Laughlin McDonald, Neil Bradley, Christopher Coates, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants.

¶2Hoyt H. Whelchel, Jr. and James C. Whelchel, Moultrie, Ga., for defendants-appellees.

¶4*144ON REMAND FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

¶5Before FAY and HENDERSON, Circuit Judges, and JONES, Senior Circuit Judge.

¶6PER CURIAM:

¶7This matter has been pending in the United States Supreme Court, - U.S. -, 103 S.Ct. 1515, 75 L.Ed.2d 942 which recently entered its order reading as follows:

“The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for further consideration in light of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. 1973, as amended in 1982.”

¶8In accordance with these instructions we remand the matter to the district court for further consideration in light of the recent amendments to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the recent pronouncements of the United States Supreme Court in Rogers v. Lodge, - U.S. -, 102 S.Ct. 3272, 73 L.Ed.2d 1012 (1982) and the City of Mobile v. Bolden, 446 U.S. 55, 100 S.Ct. 1490, 60 L.Ed.2d 47 (1980). All prior judgments are vacated. 688 F.2d 279, 639 F.2d 1383, 604 F.2d 875.

¶9REMANDED with instructions.

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