% of Total | % of Voting Age | % of Aldermen | |
---|---|---|---|
Population | Population | Under 1971 Plan3 | |
Black | 40.9 | 35.0 | 35.7 |
White | 58.7 | 64.5 | 64.3 |
Other | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
% of Total | % of Voting Age | % of Aldermen | |
---|---|---|---|
Population | Population | Under 1981 Plan | |
Black | 45.6 | 40.3 | 39.3 |
White | 53.5 | 58.9 | 60.7 |
Other | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.0 |
% of Total | % of Voting Age | % of Safe Wards | |
---|---|---|---|
Population | Population | Under 1991 Plan4 | |
Black | 47.5 | 42.7 | 42.9 |
White | 50.9 | 55.8 | 57.1 |
Other | 1.6 | 1.5 | 0.0 |
A party opposing a motion for summary judgment under Fed.R.Civ.Pro. 56 shall serve and file any written brief or memorandum of law and any appropriate extra-pleading materials within twenty days after being served with the motion [for summary judgment].
[d]ue to fundamental differences with counsel, we [the Bosley plaintiffs] dismissed our attorneys and advised them of our decision to withdraw from this case so that we could join as plaintiffs in another voting rights case challenging the same St. Louis Ward map brought by another attorney whose strategies we agree with.
We hold that no violation of section 2 can be found here, where, in spite of continuing discrimination and racial bloc voting, minority voters form effective voting majorities in a number of districts roughly proportional to the minority voters' respective shares in the voting age population.
[t]he plan for reapportionment of the twenty-eight wards for election of members to the Board of Aldermen of St. Louis City, Missouri, enacted in December, 1991, diluted the voting strength of black residents in St. Louis City by packing part of the black population into twelve wards ... w[h]ere they constitute an overwhelming black majority in eleven of said wards in excess of 75% and then by cracking the remaining black population among [seven] wards ... in which they constituted a voting age minority of the population....
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