Legal Opinion
Abate v. Rockland County Legislature
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 16, 1997No. 93 CIV. 6655(JSR)PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
RAKOFF, District Judge.
In a case of local legislative apportionment, as elsewhere, an experiment must- eventually be judged by its. results; and if federal courts need to be receptive to “innovation, experiment, and development among units of local government,” they have a correlative duty to make sure that the results do not exceed constitutional limits. 1 In 1971, the Supreme Court, despite misgivings, gave tentative approval to Rockland County’s newly-promulgated experiment in apportionment, concluding that special local factors justified the plan’s 11.9% deviation from…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- White v. RegesterSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Shaw v. RenoSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Avery v. Midland CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Larios v. CoxDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 2004
- Baldus v. Members of the Wisconsin Government Accountability BoardDistrict Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 2012
- Larios v. CoxDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 2004
- Cecere v. County of NassauDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 2003
- Cecere v. County of NassauDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 2003
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