Legal Opinion
Abrams v. Johnson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 19, 1997No. 95-1425PublishedCited by 226 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kennedy
The electoral district lines for Georgia’s congressional delegation are before us a second time, appeal now being taken from the trial court’s rulings and determinations after our remand in Miller v. Johnson, 515 U. S. 900 (1995). The three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia was affirmed in Miller after it found the Eleventh Congressional District unconstitutional as then drawn. Race, we held, must not be a predominant factor in drawing the district lines. Id., at 915-917.
Given the contorted shape of the district and the undue predominance of…
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