# Davis v. Chiles

> Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · April 30, 1998 · 139 F.3d 1414

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9415379

## Case

- **Full name:** Anita DAVIS, Lee E. Harris, Lafaye Denise Birch, Malachi Andrews, Kim T. Lyles, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Lawton CHILES; Sandra Mortham, Florida Secretary of State; David Rancourt, Director, Division of Elections, Florida Department of State, Defendants-Appellees, Jim Smith, Dot Joyce, Defendants
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- **Decided:** April 30, 1998
- **Citations:** 139 F.3d 1414; 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 8339; 1998 WL 210571
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Fay
- **Judges:** Birch, Fay, Cohill
- **Cited by:** 35 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting in footnote 14 that “[o]ur en banc court established this principle as part of our Section Two jurisprudence in our interpretation of the first Gingles factor in Nipper"
- holding that the “Miller and Gingles lines [of cases] address very different contexts”
- noting that while analysis of white-white elections is relevant, evidence from black-white elections is more probative

## Opinion text

FAY, Senior Circuit Judge,
concurring specially:
I concur in sections I, IIA, 1 throiigh 4, of the opinion for the court. It seems to me that Section IIB is simply unnecessary and therefore dicta with which I disagree but find no need to discuss. I do concur in footnote 22.

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