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Lockport Vs. Citizens for Community Action

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 07, 1977

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  9. Lockport v. Citizens
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  10. for Community Action - 430 U.S. 259 (1977) U.S. Supreme Court Lockport v. Citizens
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  11. for Community Action, 430 U.S. 259 (1977) Town of Lockport v. Citizens
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  12. under state law is hardly a novel concern of the federal judiciary. It was made clear more than 15 years ago in Baker v. Carr
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  13. U. S. 186 , that the subject is a justiciable one, and ever since the seminal case of Reynolds v. Sims
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  14. concluded that the rule of Reynolds v. Sims
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  15. and applied. The rationale is, at bottom, so simple as to be almost self-evident. Beginning with Reynolds v. Sims
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  16. Lucas v. Colorado
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  17. Page 430 U. S. 266 U.S. 73, Swann v. Adams
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  18. influence to the constituent groups found to be most affected by the governmental unit's functions. Salyer Land Co. v. Tulare
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  19. groups must still be reasonably precise, as Kramer v. Union
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  20. separate majority approval system quite similar to the one at issue in the present case. Cipriano v. City
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  21. Phoenix v. Kolodziejski
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  22. reside within the county -- the District Court's judgment would have to be affirmed under our prior cases. Cipriano v. City
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  23. to local subdivisions and the discrete interests that such local governmental units may have qua units. Reynolds v. Sims
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  24. are sufficient under the Equal Protection Clause to justify the classifications made by New York law. Phoenix v. Kolodzieski
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  25. Salyer Land Co. v. Tulare
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  26. as constitutionally to require that their votes be aggregated in any referendum to approve annexation. Cf. Hunter v. Pittsburgh
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  27. brought an action in the same court to enforce the 1972 Charter as the law of Niagara County. County of Niagara v. New
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  28. argue that the District Court should have deferred to the jurisdiction of the state court. Even assuming that Younger v. Harris
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  29. divided with respect to what deviations from numerical exactitude are constitutionally permissible. See, e.g., Abate v. Mundt
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  30. to representative elections at the local as well as state level. See, e.g., Avery v. Midland
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  31. Hadley v. Junior
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  32. Carrington v. Rash
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  33. does not violate the Equal Protection Clause, there being no discrimination against an identifiable class. Gordon v. Lance
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  34. U. S. 1 . Cf. Hunter v. Erickson
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  35. of county and town subdivisions in New York, and has allowed considerable deviation from the basic rule of Reynolds v. Sims
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  36. U. S. 533 , on that ground. Abate v. Mundt
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  37. U.S. Supreme Court Lockport v. Citizens
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  38. Town of Lockport v. Citizens
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  39. Baker v. Carr
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  40. of Reynolds v. Sims
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  41. Lucas v. Colorado
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  42. Kramer v. Union
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  43. Cipriano v. City
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  44. Phoenix v. Kolodzieski
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  45. Cf. Hunter v. Pittsburgh
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  46. of Niagara County. County of Niagara v. New
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  47. Younger v. Harris
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  48. Avery v. Midland
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  49. Cf. Hunter v. Erickson
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  50. Whitcomb v. Chavis
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