Legal Opinion
Smith v. COBB COUNTY BD. OF ELECTIONS AND REGISTR.
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided June 20, 2002No. 1:02-cv-01093PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
CARNES, District Judge.
The two above-captioned actions involve the reapportionment of electoral districts for the voters of Cobb County, Georgia. In each of these cases, the plaintiffs have asserted a claim based on an alleged violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, arising out of the failure of the Georgia General Assembly (hereinafter “the Legislature”) to pass legislation re-drawing the electoral posts for the Cobb County Board of Education (hereinafter, “the Board”) and the electoral districts for the Cobb County…
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