Florida: Osceola County suit delayed for 2 months
The Orlando Sentinel reports: Osceola County won a two-month delay Friday in the trial of a federal voting-rights lawsuit. ...
Lawyers for the county asked the judge for a delay in order to take depositions for close to 30 potential witnesses in the wake of a three-day hearing that resulted in Presnell's June 26 injunction halting commission elections. Presnell's ruling to move the trial to September came after a telephone hearing Friday.
There remains one unanswered question for experts to answer, the county said in paperwork asking for the delay.
It "concerns whether a constitutionally proper and proportionate district can be drawn using 2006 population and registration data which still provides for a Hispanic majority. To this point, no expert on either side has tried to do this, and defendants submit it cannot be done," the legal filing said.
The county argued it would take time for experts to flesh out that issue for trial. -- Voting trial in Osceola postponed 2 months - Orlando Sentinel : Osceola County News Voting trial in Osceola postponed 2 months - Orlando Sentinel : Osceola County News