Legal Opinion
Jeffers v. Clinton
District Court, E.D. Arkansas
Decided May 16, 1990No. H-C-89-004PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
On December 4, 1989, we filed our first opinion in this voting-rights ease. We held that the plan of apportionment then in effect for the Arkansas General Assembly— the plan adopted by the State Board of Apportionment in 1981 — diluted the votes of black citizens in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended in 1982, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1973 et seq. We directed the defendants to submit a new, lawful plan in time for use in the 1990 elections. The questions whether the defendants had also violated the Constitution, and whether, if so, the remedy of…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Hecht Co. v. BowlesSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- City of Mobile v. BoldenSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Beech Aircraft Corp. v. RaineySupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Rogers v. LodgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of ElectionsSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
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3Cited by30 opinions
- Turner v. State of Ark.District Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1991
- Shelby County, Ala. v. HolderCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2012
- Brooks v. MillerCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1998
- Jeffers v. TuckerDistrict Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1994
- Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. MukaseyDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2008
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