[EL] Query: teaching VRA Section 2

[Gardner, James]

Dear Colleagues:

After teaching Section 2 of the VRA (a lesson focused heavily on Gingles), it has long been my practice to give my students a problem on which to practice their understanding of Section 2 in which they are forced to apply the Gingles test to a new set of facts.  Part of the point is to make them do what law students most hate to do: cull the relevant facts from a fact-rich record, marshal and herd the facts into the required shape, and then build a persuasive argument in an importantly fact-dependent area of the law.  The problem I've been using, however, has become a bit stale with time.  Can anyone point me to a relatively recent Section 2 case, with an appropriately fact-rich record, from which I could build a new problem for my class?  Or perhaps you even have such a problem already and would be willing to share it?

Thanks for any help!

Best,
Jim
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James A. Gardner
Bridget and Thomas Black SUNY Distinguished Professor of Law
Research Professor of Political Science
University at Buffalo School of Law
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