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Allen Vs. State Bd. of Elections

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 03, 1969

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  1. Zemel Vs. Rusk US Supreme Court · May 03, 1965
  2. South Carolina Vs. Katzenbach US Supreme Court · Mar 07, 1966
  3. Reynolds Vs. Sims US Supreme Court · Jun 15, 1964
  4. Gomillion Vs. Lightfoot US Supreme Court · Nov 14, 1960
  5. Allen v. State
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  6. Bd. of Elections - 393 U.S. 544 (1969) U.S. Supreme Court Allen v. State
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  7. Bd. of Elections, 393 U.S. 544 (1969) Allen v. State
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  8. Page 393 U. S. 548 In South Carolina v. Katzenbach
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  9. of the Act. We gave detailed treatment to the history and purposes of the Voting Rights Act in South Carolina v. Katzenbach
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  10. unless the State first complies with one of the section's approval procedures. No. 25 Fairley v. Patterson
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  11. No. 26, Bunton v. Patterson
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  12. approval requirements. No. 36, Whitley v. Williams
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  13. cases and postponed consideration of jurisdiction to a hearing on the merits. 392 U.S. 902 (1968). No. 3, Allen v. State
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  14. Act was drafted to make the guarantees of the Fifteenth Amendment finally a reality for all citizens. South Carolina v. Katzenbach
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  15. members of the protected class to institute suit, nevertheless implied a private right of action. In J. I. Case Co. v. Borak
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  16. of the Voting Rights Act, and would involve an attack on the constitutionality of the Act itself. See Katzenbach v. Morgan
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  17. at prohibiting the enforcement of a state enactment that is for some reason violative of the Act. Cf. United States v. Ward
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  18. Perez v. Rhiddlehoover
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  19. questions. See Perez v. Rhiddlehoover
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  20. supra, at 72. Moreover as we indicated in South Carolina v. Katzenbach
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  21. from the three-judge court only if the three-judge court was properly convened. Pennsylvania Public Utility Comm'n v. Pennsylvania
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  22. We held in Swift Co. v. Wickham
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  23. that congressional enactments providing for the convening of three-judge courts must be strictly construed. Phillips v. United
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  24. federal court system, and may often result in a delay in a matter needing swift initial adjudication. See Swift Co. v. Wickham
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  25. been unaware of the legitimate reasons that prompted Congress to enact three-judge court legislation. See Swift & Co. v. Wickham
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  26. c)(1) (1969 ed., Supp. I). See Reynolds v. Sims
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  27. can be affected by a dilution of voting power, as well as by an absolute prohibition on casting a ballot. See Reynolds v. Sims
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  28. we also emphasize that our decision indicates no opinion concerning their constitutionality. v. Appellees
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  29. Together with No. 25, Fairley et al. v. Patterson
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  30. Attorney General of Mississippi, et al., No. 26, Bunton et al. v. Patterson
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  31. Attorney General of Mississippi, et al., and No. 36, Whitley et al. v. Williams
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  32. on the merits, a three-judge District Court ordered appellants placed on the 1966 general election ballot. Whitley v. Johnson
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  33. See Boynton v. Virginia
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  34. Bell v. Maryland
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  35. Silver v. United
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  36. rights. See United States v. Raines
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  37. a declaratory judgment that its new voting laws do not have a discriminatory purpose or effect. Cf. Apache County v. United
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  38. just these suits for securing the right to vote that prompted Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act. South Carolina v. Katzenbach
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  39. power by adopting a system in which various legislative bodies are elected on an at-large basis. And yet, in Fairley v. Patterson
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  40. was clearly concerned with changes in procedure with which voters could comply. But a law, like that in Fairley v. Patterson
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  41. Act's basic purposes, the Court suggests that Congress intended to adopt the concept of voting articulated in Reynolds v. Sims
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  42. on the Fifteenth Amendment, the leading voting case is not Reynolds v. Sims
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  43. but Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  44. the gerrymander to contain the impact of Negro suffrage. It is unnecessary, of course, to decide whether Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  45. cases' expansive concept of voting when it enacted the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Once it is determined that Reynolds v. Sims
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  46. concluding that the Voting Rights Act did not apply. Rather, it seems to me that only the judgment in Fairley v. Patterson
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  47. which simply gives each county the right to elect its Board of Supervisors on an at-large basis. In Whitley v. Williams
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  48. perceive no good reason why it should not be included within the ambit of the Act. The statute involved in Bunton v. Patterson
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  49. Cf. Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  50. The state senator, state representative, county supervisor justice of the peace, and constable involved in Whitley v. Williams
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