Legal Opinion
Shaw v. Hunt
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 13, 1996No. 94-923PublishedCited by 317 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
This suit is here for a second time. In Shaw v. Reno, 509 U. S. 630 (1993) (Shaw I), we held that plaintiffs whose complaint alleged that the deliberate segregation of voters into separate and bizarre-looking districts on the basis of race stated a claim for relief under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. We remanded the case for further consideration by the District Court. That court held that the North Carolina redistricting plan did classify *902voters by race, but that the classification survived strict scrutiny and therefore did not offend the Constitution. We now hold…
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