Legal Opinion
Monroe v. City of Woodville, Miss.
District Court, S.D. Mississippi
Decided June 15, 1988No. Civ. A. W85-0088(B)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BARBOUR, District Judge.
Introduction
This unusual vote dilution case is brought under Section 2 et seq. of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1973 et seq., the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983 and 1985. The Plaintiffs are black registered voters of the City of Woodville, Mississippi. Plaintiffs allege that the city’s at-large electoral system whereby all of the aldermen are elected at large dilutes black voting strength. They seek to have the city divided into four single-member electoral…
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Mississippi State Chapter, Operation Push, Inc., Cross-Appellees v. Ray Mabus, Governor of Mississippi, Cross-AppellantsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1991
- John Monroe v. City of Woodville, MississippiCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1989