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Chisom Vs. Roemer

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 20, 1991

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  1. South Carolina Vs. Katzenbach US Supreme Court · Mar 07, 1966
  2. Wells Vs. Edwards US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1973
  3. Thornburg Vs. Gingles US Supreme Court · Jun 30, 1986
  4. Reynolds Vs. Sims US Supreme Court · Jun 15, 1964
  5. U.S. 380 (1991) U.S. Supreme Court Chisom v. Roemer
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  6. U.S. 380 (1991) Chisom v. Roemer
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  7. the complaint in light of its earlier en banc decision in League of United Latin American Citizens Council No. 444 v. Clements
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  8. rights, the statute identifies two inextricably linked elements of a plaintiff's burden of proof. See, e.g., White v. Regester
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  9. from implementing a new voting procedure having discriminatory effects with respect to judicial elections, Clark v. Roemer
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  10. P. 501 U. S. 401 -402. (e) That the one-person, one-vote rule is inapplicable to judicial elections, Wells v. Edwards
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  11. Page 501 U. S. 382 for voting rights not adequately protected by the Constitution itself. Cf. City of Rome v. United
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  12. of the population of the First Supreme Court District and about half of the registered voters in that district. Chisom v. Edwards
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  13. registration. Id. at 8, 47. The District Court granted respondents' motion to dismiss the complaint. Chisom v. Edwards
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  14. Id. at 187. The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed. Chisom v. Edwards
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  15. F.2d 1056, cert. denied sub nom. Roemer v. Chisom
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  16. F.2d at 1058. After agreeing with the recently announced opinion in Mallory v. Eyrich
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  17. Ibid. (quoting Martin v. Allain
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  18. under the standards set forth in Thornburg v. Gingles
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  19. of the Act as amended. League of United Latin American Citizens Council No. 444 v. Clements
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  20. to vote dilution claims in judicial elections. The majority also assumed that Congress was familiar with Wells v. Edwards
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  21. or abridged by dilution of voting strength derives from the one-person, one-vote reapportionment case of Reynolds v. Sims
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  22. Unlike Wells v. Edwards
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  23. and Mobile v. Bolden
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  24. of the amended statute continues to apply to judicial elections, see Clark v. Roemer
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  25. in Mobile v. Bolden
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  26. Justice Stewart's opinion for the plurality in Mobile v. Bolden
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  27. The statutory language is patterned after the language used by JUSTICE WHITE in his opinions for the Court in White v. Regester
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  28. U. S. 755 (1973), and Whitcomb v. Chavis
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  29. the Court identified the opportunity to participate and the opportunity to elect as inextricably linked. In White v. Regester
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  30. U.S. at 412 U. S. 766 (emphasis added). And earlier, in Whitcomb v. Chavis
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  31. Congress. v. Both
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  32. When Congress borrowed the phrase from White v. Regester
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  33. applies to judicial elections. Clark v. Roemer
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  34. They reason that, because we have held the one-person, one-vote rule inapplicable to judicial elections, see Wells v. Edwards
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  35. Amendment. It has no more relevance to a correct interpretation of this statute than does our decision in Mobile v. Bolden
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  36. was enacted to protect voting rights that are not adequately protected by the Constitution itself. Cf. City of Rome v. United
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  37. U. S. 301 , 383 U. S. 315 (1966). In Allen v. State
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  38. the original Act, like the Page 501 U. S. 404 Fifteenth Amendment, contained such a requirement. See Mobile v. Bolden
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  39. Chisom v. Edwards
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  40. granted plaintiffs' motion, having found that they satisfied the four elements required for injunctive relief. Chisom v. Edwards
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  41. of Appeals, however, vacated the preliminary injunction and ordered that the election proceed as scheduled. Chisom v. Roemer
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  42. In Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  43. Supreme Court precedents, which applied in voting discrimination claims prior to the litigation involved in Mobile v. Bolden
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  44. the legal standards under the results test by codifying the leading pre- Bolden vote dilution case, White v. Regester
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  45. Id. at 27 (footnote omitted). See also Thornburg v. Gingles
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  46. is intended to codify the results' test employed in Whitcomb v. Chavis
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  47. U. S. 124 (1971), and White v. Regester
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  48. intent' test propounded in the plurality opinion in Mobile v. Bolden
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  49. The phrase is borrowed from JUSTICE WHITE's opinion for the Court in White v. Regester
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  50. U. S. 755 (1973), which predates Mobile v. Bolden
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