Legal Opinion
Beer v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 30, 1976No. 73-1869PublishedCited by 323 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 1 prohibits *132a State or political subdivision subject to § 4 of the Act2 from enforcing “any voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure with re*133spect to voting different from that in force or effect on November 1, 1964,” unless it has obtained a declaratory-judgment from the District Court for the District of Columbia that such change “does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color” or has submitted the proposed change to the Attorney…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Gomillion v. LightfootSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- South Carolina v. KatzenbachSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Allen v. State Board of ElectionsSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- White v. RegesterSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by323 opinions
- City of Mobile v. BoldenSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Shaw v. RenoSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Miller v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- City of Rome v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Burton v. City of Belle GladeCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1999
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