Legal Opinion
McCoy v. Chicago Heights
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided May 28, 1998No. 87 C 5112, 88 C 9800PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
COAR, District Judge.
Currently pending are the parties’ proposals for remedying the Section 2 Voting Rights Act violations found previously by this court. For the reasons stated in this Memorandum Opinion and Order, this court denies the proposals of the City, the Park District, and the class plaintiffs and accepts, in part, the proposal of the individual plaintiffs. As described herein, this court orders that the individual plaintiffs’ proposal will be modified by implementing a system under which the aldermen and Park District members are elected at-large…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Thornburg v. GinglesSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Johnson v. De GrandySupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Shaw v. RenoSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Whitcomb v. ChavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Ron Harper, Kevin Perkins, William Elliot, and Robert McCoy v. City of Chicago Heights and the Chicago Heights Election Commission, Ron Harper, Kevin Perkins, William Elliot, and Robert McCoy v. Chicago Heights Park District, Cross-Appellee, and David Orr, Cook County ClerkCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2000
- United States v. Village of Port ChesterDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2010
- United States v. Euclid City School BoardDistrict Court, N.D. Ohio · 2009
- Cottier v. City of MartinDistrict Court, D. South Dakota · 2007
- Harper, Ron v. City Chicago HeightsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2000