Legal Opinion
Brown v. Detzner
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided September 24, 2012No. Case No. 3:12-cv-852-J-99TJC-MCRPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
TIMOTHY J. CORRIGAN, District Judge.
When it comes to protecting the fundamental right to vote, African Americans have special reason to be vigilant. Indeed, the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 to “banish the blight of racial discrimination in voting.”1 In this lawsuit, a group of African American leaders and voters, including a member of Congress, claim that 2011 amendments to Florida’s early voting law disproportionately and adversely affect African American voters and are therefore not only unlawful under the Voting Rights Act, but also violate the United States Constitution.
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2Cases cited31 opinions
- Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Washington v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Thornburg v. GinglesSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Wesberry v. SandersSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by6 opinions
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- North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. McCroryDistrict Court, M.D. North Carolina · 2014
- Wright v. Sumter Cnty. Bd. of ElectionsDistrict Court, M.D. Georgia · 2018
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