Legal Opinion
Commonwealth of Virginia v. United States
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided January 27, 1975No. Civ. A. 1100-73PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
2Per curiam
This is an action in which the Commonwealth of Virginia seeks' a declaratory judgment exempting it from coverage by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1973. Section 4(a) of the Act forbids the application, in any jurisdiction covered by the section, of any literacy test or of any other “test or device” as defined by the Act. 1 Section 5 provides that no new election law or procedure may be put into operation in a jurisdiction to which the prohibitions of Section 4(a) apply unless the new law or procedure has been approved by the Attorney General or the United…
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