Legal Opinion
Toombs v. Fortson
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided May 25, 1962No. Civ. A. 7883PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.
This is the second suit to be tried before a three-judge court sitting in and for the Northern District of Georgia, in which Georgia citizens seek relief from alleged unconstitutional inequalities existing under the present composition of the Georgia state governmental structure. The first suit, Sanders v. Gray, D.C., 203 F.Supp. 158, resulted in the court’s holding that the county unit system by which political party primaries have been required to be held for the election of certain State House offices is invalid because of the wide disparity between the number of…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- United States v. ClassicSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Ex Parte SieboldSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Coleman v. MillerSupreme Court of the United States · 1939
- United States v. MosleySupreme Court of the United States · 1915
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3Cited by59 opinions
- Terrazas v. RamirezTexas Supreme Court · 1991
- Sims v. FrinkDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1962
- Toombs v. FortsonDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 1965
- Baker v. CarrDistrict Court, M.D. Tennessee · 1962
- Sincock v. DuffyDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1963
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