Legal Opinion
United States v. Marengo County Commission
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 14, 1984No. 81-7796PublishedCited by 193 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judge:
In 1979 the district court held that the at-large system for electing the Marengo County, Alabama county commission and school board did not violate the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments; the Civil Rights Act of 1870, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1971(a) (1976); and section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (1976). Clark v. Marengo County, 1979, S.D.Ala., 469 F.Supp. 1150. Since that time, we have remanded this case once, and the Supreme Court has issued two decisions affecting the standard of proof in constitutional discrimination…
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