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City of Mobile Vs. Bolden

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 22, 1980

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  11. U.S. 55 (1980) U.S. Supreme Court City of Mobile v. Bolden
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  12. U.S. 55 (1980) City of Mobile v. Bolden
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  13. in the sense in which that word was used in Reynolds v. Sims
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  14. that Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  15. II Although required by general principles of judicial administration to do so, Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlin
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  16. Ashwander v. TVA
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  17. racially neutral on its face violates the Fifteenth Amendment only if motivated by a discriminatory purpose. In Guinn v. United
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  18. that racially discriminatory motivation is a necessary ingredient of a Fifteenth Amendment violation. In Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  19. In Wright v. Rockefeller
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  20. Lassiter v. Northampton
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  21. necessity of showing purposeful discrimination in order to show a Fifteenth Amendment violation. The cases of Smith v. Allwright
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  22. U. S. 649 , and Terry v. Adams
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  23. that discrimination an abridgment of the right to vote by a State. Since the Texas Democratic Party primary in Smith v. Allwright
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  24. U.S. at 446 U. S. 664 . Terry v. Adams
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  25. of Negroes from participation in the election process. The appellees have argued in this Court that Smith v. Allwright
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  26. and Terry v. Adams
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  27. the patent discrimination Page 446 U. S. 65 practiced by a nominally private organization. Terry v. Adams
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  28. by anyone. The Fifteenth Amendment does not entail the right to have Negro candidates elected, and neither Smith v. Allwright
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  29. nor Terry v. Adams
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  30. is not and cannot be that, as such, they depart from apportionment on a population basis in violation of Reynolds v. Sims
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  31. legislative districts, the Court has consistently held that they are not unconstitutional per se, e.g., White v. Regester
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  32. purpose were invidiously to minimize or cancel out the voting potential of racial or ethnic minorities. See White v. Regester
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  33. that the group allegedly discriminated against has not elected representatives in proportion to its numbers. White v. Regester
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  34. discrimination can there be a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. See Washington v. Davis
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  35. Page 446 U. S. 67 Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan
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  36. Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney
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  37. U. S. 256 . The Court explicitly indicated in Washington v. Davis
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  38. just as it does to other claims of racial discrimination. Indeed, the Court's opinion in that case viewed Wright v. Rockefeller
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  39. The rule is the same in other contexts. Wright v. Rockefeller
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  40. Washington v. Davis
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  41. supra at 426 U. S. 240 . More recently, in Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan
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  42. Housing Dev. Corp., supra, the Court again relied on Wright v. Rockefeller
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  43. Clause as it has been understood in a variety of other contexts involving alleged racial discrimination. Washington v. Davis
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  44. Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan
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  45. Keyes v. School
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  46. U.S. Supreme Court City of Mobile v. Bolden
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  47. Spector Motor Service, Inc. v. McLaughlin
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  48. In Guinn v. United
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  49. In Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  50. Lassiter v. Northampton
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