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Whitcomb Vs. Chavis

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 07, 1971

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  1. Reynolds Vs. Sims US Supreme Court · Jun 15, 1964
  2. Burns Vs. Richardson US Supreme Court · Apr 25, 1966
  3. KilgarlIn Vs. Hill US Supreme Court · Feb 20, 1967
  4. Harrison Vs. Schaefer US Supreme Court · Feb 28, 1966
  5. Kirkpatrick Vs. Preisler US Supreme Court · Apr 07, 1969
  6. Fortson Vs. Dorsey US Supreme Court · Jan 18, 1965
  7. Gray Vs. Sanders US Supreme Court · Mar 18, 1963
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  8. Gomillion Vs. Lightfoot US Supreme Court · Nov 14, 1960
  9. Abate Vs. Mundt US Supreme Court · Jun 07, 1971
  10. Gordon Vs. Lance US Supreme Court · Jun 07, 1971
  11. U.S. 124 (1971) U.S. Supreme Court Whitcomb v. Chavis
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  12. U.S. 124 (1971) Whitcomb v. Chavis
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  13. judge court filed its opinion containing its findings and conclusions on July 28, 1969, holding for plaintiffs. Chavis v. Whitcomb
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  14. the legislators over the county and comprises a multi-member district for both the house and the senate. ( See Burns v. Richardson
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  15. any event, would have required revision in light of the 1970 census figures. III The line of cases from Gray v. Sanders
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  16. U. S. 368 (1963), and Reynolds v. Sims
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  17. U. S. 533 (1964), to Kirkpatrick v. Preisler
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  18. U. S. 526 (1969), and Wells v. Rockefeller
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  19. the quality of representation afforded by the multi-member district as compared with single member districts. In Lucas v. Colorado
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  20. General Assembly, 377 U. S. 713 (1964), decided with Reynolds v. Sims
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  21. presented, we held that such a district is not per se illegal under the Equal Protection Clause. Fortson v. Dorsey
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  22. U. S. 120 (1967). See also Burnette v. Davis
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  23. in striking down those contrivances that can fairly be said to infringe on Fourteenth Amendment rights. Sims v. Baggett
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  24. Smith v. Paris
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  25. Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  26. U. S. 339 (1960). See also Allen v. State
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  27. of Appellees (Plaintiffs) 229. Accordingly, the circumstances here lie outside the reach of decisions such as Sims v. Baggett
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  28. same consequences on the supporters of losing candidates whose views are rejected at the polls. Page 403 U. S. 156 V The
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  29. by a simple requirement that some of the at-large candidates each year must reside in the ghetto. Cf. Fortson v. Dorsey
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  30. in Swann v. Adams
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  31. was not improper for the court to order state-wide redistricting, as district courts have done from the time Reynolds v. Sims
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  32. Fair Representation v. Tawes
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  33. test of Reynolds. Stout v. Bottorff
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  34. were acceptable under the Reynolds test, which has been considerably refined since that decision, see Swann v. Adams
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  35. The first requirement implicit in Fortson v. Dorsey
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  36. and Burns v. Richardson
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  37. injunction had been granted or denied, we do not have jurisdiction of that appeal, and it is therefore dismissed. Gunn v. University
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  38. was not presented. In Burnette, we summarily affirmed a three-judge District Court ruling, Mann v. Davis
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  39. an adherence to Fortson. Similarly, Harrison summarily affirmed a District Court reapportionment plan, Schaefer v. Thomson
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  40. Interestingly enough, in Wright v. Rockefeller
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  41. in light of Reynolds, Vermont's lower house now has 36 multi-member and 36 single member districts. Buckley v. Hoff
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  42. Kirkpatrick v. Preisler
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  43. with prior decisions in the field of voter qualifications and reapportionment. Oregon v. Mitchell
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  44. Hadley v. Junior
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  45. standard of Wesberry v. Sanders
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  46. variation. Abate v. Mundt
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  47. sustains a provision that gives opponents of school bond issues half again the voting power of proponents. Gordon v. Lance
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  48. II The Court justifies the wondrous results in these cases by relying on different combinations of factors. Abate v. Mundt
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  49. Ante at 403 U. S. 157 . Gordon v. Lance
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  50. only marvel, therefore, that they were dismissed, singly and in combination, in a line of cases which began with Gray v. Sanders
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