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Voting-rights groups seek to scuttle Brown lawsuit

BY THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

Voting-rights groups urged a federal court this week to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Congresswoman Corrine Brown that challenges a new congressional redistricting plan in Florida. The League of Women Voters of Florida, Common Cause Florida and legal allies filed a 36-page document Wednesday that takes aim at Brown's argument that the redistricting plan would violate the federal Voting Rights Act.

Those groups waged a successful constitutional fight that forced the state's congressional districts to be redrawn. Brown, a Jacksonville Democrat, filed a federal lawsuit because of objections to her redrawn district, which has stretched from Jacksonville to Orlando. Under the new map, it would go from Jacksonville to Gadsden County, which is west of Tallahassee. Also this week, the Legislature and Secretary of State Ken Detzner argued in documents that they should be dismissed as defendants in Brown's lawsuit.