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Sailors Vs. Board of Educ. of Kent County

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 22, 1967

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  6. Gomillion Vs. Lightfoot US Supreme Court · Nov 14, 1960
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  9. Moody Vs. Flowers US Supreme Court · May 22, 1967
  10. Reynolds Vs. Sims US Supreme Court · Jun 15, 1964
  11. Sailors v. Board
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  12. of Educ. of Kent County - 387 U.S. 105 (1967) U.S. Supreme Court Sailors v. Board
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  13. of Educ. of Kent County, 387 U.S. 105 (1967) Sailors v. Board
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  14. district court, rejecting appellants' contention that the system paralleled the county-unit system invalidated in Gray v. Sanders
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  15. A three-judge court was properly convened, since the challenged statute has general and statewide application. Moody v. Flowers
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  16. the county unit system which we invalidated under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in Gray v. Sanders
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  17. which we held in that case and in Reynolds v. Sims
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  18. U.S. 966. We conclude that a three-judge court was properly convened, for, unlike the situation in Moody v. Flowers
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  19. generally to all Michigan county school boards of the type described. We start with what we said in Reynolds v. Sims
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  20. created by the State to assist in the carrying out of state governmental functions. As stated by the Court in Hunter v. City
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  21. than by an election. Our cases have, in the main, dealt with elections for United States Senator or Congressman ( Gray v. Sanders
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  22. supra ) or for state legislators. Reynolds v. Sims
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  23. Lucas v. Colorado
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  24. Page 387 U. S. 109 364 U. S. 339 , 364 U. S. 345 . Yet as stated in Anderson v. Dunn
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  25. arguendo that, where a State provides for an election of a local official or agency, the requirements of Gray v. Sanders
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  26. and Reynolds v. Sims
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  27. talking about the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as was Mr. Justice Holmes, dissenting in Lochner v. New
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  28. But as we indicated in Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  29. appointive, rather than the elective, process. We reserve that question for other cases such as Board of Supervisors v. Bianchi
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  30. election of a local official or agency -- whether administrative, legislative, or judicial -- the requirements of Gray v. Sanders
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  31. The officers in Gray v. Sanders
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  32. on the States be circumvented by local bodies to whom the State delegates authority. Standard Computing Scale Co. v. Farrell
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  33. U.S. Supreme Court Sailors v. Board
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  34. Hunter v. City
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  35. Anderson v. Dunn
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  36. of Gray v. Sanders
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  37. Lochner v. New
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  38. Board of Supervisors v. Bianchi
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  39. Standard Computing Scale Co. v. Farrell
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  40. WMCA, Inc. v. Lomenzo
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