Case Name: SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA, Appellant v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., In his Official Capacity as Attorney General of the United States, et al., Appellees
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2013-10-02
Citations: 541 F. App'x 1
Docket Number: No. 11-5256
Parties: SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA, Appellant v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., In his Official Capacity as Attorney General of the United States, et al., Appellees.
Judges: Before: TATEL and GRIFFITH, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 541
Pages: 1–2

Head Matter:
SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA, Appellant v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., In his Official Capacity as Attorney General of the United States, et al., Appellees.
No. 11-5256.
United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
Oct. 2, 2013.
Thomas Ryan McCarthy, Bertram Walter Rein, William Spencer Consovoy, Brendan John Morrissey, Esquire, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, DC, for Appellant.
Diana Katherine Flynn, Sarah Elaine Harrington, Ronald C. Machen, Jr., Esquire, Linda Frances Thome, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellees.
Before: TATEL and GRIFFITH, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Opinion:
JUDGMENT
Upon consideration of the opinion of the Supreme Court in Shelby County, Ala. v. Holder, — U.S.-, 133 S.Ct. 2612, 186 L.Ed.2d 651 (2013), and the motions of appellant and appellees to govern future proceedings, it is
ORDERED that this court's judgment filed May 18, 2012, be vacated. It is
FURTHER ORDERED and ADJUDGED that the judgment of the district court be vacated and the case remanded with instructions to enter a declaratory judgment in favor of Shelby County on its claim that it is unconstitutional to use the Section 4(b) formula to determine which jurisdictions are subject to the preclearance requirement of Section 5, and dismissing Shelby County's constitutional challenge to Section 5 as moot.
The Clerk is directed to issue the mandate forthwith.