Legal Opinion
Vecinos De Barrio Uno v. City of Holyoke
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 29, 1995No. 95-1581PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, CYR and STAHL, Circuit Judges.
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In 1965, Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act (the VRA), Pub.L. No. 89-110, 79 Stat. 437 (codified at 42 U.S.C. §§1973-1973o). Three decades later, the legislation remains a Serbonian bog in which plaintiffs and defendants, pundits and policymakers, judges and justices find themselves bemired.
The case before us opens yet another window on the conceptual complexity that has engulfed the VRA. It arises against the backdrop of the biennial elections that are held for city council in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The plaintiffs, two nonprofit…
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