Legal Opinion
Ketchum v. City Council of City of Chicago, Ill.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided December 30, 1985No. 82 C 4085, 82 C 4431 and 82 C 4820PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
NORGLE, District Judge.
This case is before the court on remand from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. 1 The Seventh Circuit remanded the case to this court to fashion an appropriate remedy for established violations of section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended in 1982. 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (1982). The earlier court-ordered map failed to provide “an adequate remedy for the Voting Rights Act violation because it [did] not eliminate, in accordance with well-accepted principles of redistricting, the illegal dilution of minority voting strength accomplished…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Louisiana v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburgh, Inc. v. CareySupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Connor v. FinchSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- McDaniel v. SanchezSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Mars Ketchum v. Jane M. ByrneCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
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3Cited by16 opinions
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- Gomez v. City of WatsonvilleCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1988
- Williams v. City of DallasDistrict Court, N.D. Texas · 1990
- Armstrong v. AdamsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1989
- Covington v. North CarolinaDistrict Court, M.D. North Carolina · 2017
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