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Reno Vs. Bossier Parish School Bd.

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 12, 1997

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  10. Reno v. Bossier
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  11. Parish School Bd. - 520 U.S. 471 (1997) October Term, 1996 Syllabus Reno, Attorney General V. Bossier
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  12. Together with No. 95-1508, Price et al. v. Bossier
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  13. Syllabus bat different evils and, accordingly, to impose very different duties upon the States. See Holder v. Hall
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  14. have the purpose, and will not have the effect, of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race. See Beer v. United
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  15. into a jurisdiction's motivation in enacting voting changes, courts should look for guidance to Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan
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  16. these sections to combat different evils and, accordingly, to impose very different duties upon the States, see Holder v. Hall
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  17. Beer v. United
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  18. City of Rome v. United
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  19. Likewise, in City of Lockhart v. United
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  20. voting practice. Holder v. Hall
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  21. the difficult burden of proving the absence of discriminatory purpose and effect. See, e. g., Elkins v. United
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  22. See Miller v. Johnson
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  23. plan might be found to be constitutionally offensive. Id., at 142, n. 14. Among them was our decision in White v. Regester
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  24. has been required to establish that the State or political subdivision acted with a discriminatory purpose. See Mobile v. Bolden
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  25. see also Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan
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  26. Presley v. Etowah
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  27. see supra, at 480, by dropping a footnote in a Senate Report instead of amending the statute itself. See Pierce v. Underwood
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  28. See also City of Lockhart v. United
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  29. U. S. 875 , 883 (1988) (citing Hedges v. Dixon
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  30. purpose inquiry ever extends beyond the search for retrogressive intent. See Kentucky Dept. of Corrections v. Thompson
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  31. Daubert v. Merrell
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  32. with- 488 out more, suffice to establish that the jurisdiction acted with a discriminatory purpose. Shaw v. Hunt
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  33. chose the more dilutive plan because it better comported with its traditional districting principles, see Miller v. Johnson
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  34. discriminatory purpose in cases brought under the Equal Protection Clause for over two decades, see, e. g., Shaw v. Reno
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  35. cases. See Pleasant Grove v. United
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  36. see also Busbee v. Smith
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  37. Port Arthur v. United
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  38. the official action whether it 'bears more heavily on one race than another.''' 429 U. S., at 266 (citing Washington v. Davis
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  39. It is so ordered. JUSTICE THOMAS, concurring. Although I continue to adhere to the views I expressed in Holder v. Hall
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  40. in those other districts, and perhaps dilutes the influence of the minority group as a whole. See, e. g., Hays v. Louisiana
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  41. a new plan enacted with the purpose of unconstitutionally diluting minority votes is an unconstitutional plan. Mobile v. Bolden
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  42. guards against. Allen v. State
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  43. It is reason- 495 able to assume that the Constitution would forbid the use of such a plan. See Rogers v. Lodge
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  44. And compare id., at 62-63 (intentional vote dilution may be illegal under the Fifteenth Amendment) and Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  45. and Beer v. United
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  46. unconstitutionally diluting minority voting strength, whether or not the plan is retrogressive in its effect. In Shaw v. Hunt
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  47. Either way, it would not normally have much to do with unlawful purpose. See also the discussions in Richmond v. United
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  48. Pleasant Grove v. United
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  49. Syllabus Reno, Attorney General V. Bossier
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  50. the States. See Holder v. Hall
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