Legal Opinion
Calvin v. Jefferson County Board of Commissioners
District Court, N.D. Florida
Decided March 19, 2016No. CASE NO. 4:15CV131-MW/CASPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER ON MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
Mark E. Walker, United States District Judge ■
I. INTRODUCTION
Imagine a fictional Florida county — I’ll call it Marshall County — with a total een-*1295sus population of 12,000. Marshall County is run by a board of commissioners comprised of five people, each of whom is elected from a single-member district with a total census population of exactly 2,400. The Marshall County School Board, which also has five members, uses the same district lines.
Marshall County is home to one of the state’s largest state prisons — I’ll call it Marshall Correctional Institution,…
2Cases cited50 opinions
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- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Harper v. Virginia Board of ElectionsSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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