Legal Opinion
Monroe v. CITY OF WOODVILLE, MISS.
District Court, S.D. Mississippi
Decided June 10, 1986No. Civ. A. W85-0088(B)PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
BARBOUR, District Judge.
Presently before the Court for disposition in this Voting Rights Act case is Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment. The case presents the straight-forward question of whether at-large elections for city aldermen violate the “results” standard of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act where black voters constituted a pre-existing effective majority of the electorate.
According to the 1980 census, the City of Woodville, Mississippi, has a population of 1,512 residents. Of this population, 972 residents are black (64.3%), and 540 residents are…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Whitcomb v. ChavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Mars Ketchum v. Jane M. ByrneCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
- Regionald Seastrunk v. Gerald BurnsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1985
- Hayes v. Board of Trustees of Clark County School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Mississippi v. United StatesDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1979
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3Cited by3 opinions
- John Monroe v. City of Woodville, MississippiCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1989
- John Monroe v. City of Woodville, MississippiCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1987
- Monroe v. City of Woodville, Miss.District Court, S.D. Mississippi · 1988