Legal Opinion
Simkins v. Gressette
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided September 22, 1980No. 80-1370PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIDENER, Circuit Judge:
Appellants are eleven black citizens and registered voters of the State of South Carolina.1 They filed this action *289against various South Carolina officials and against the chairmen of the State Democratic and Republican parties, alleging that South Carolina’s present senate reapportionment plan dilutes their vote in violation of the First, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1971, 1973 and 1983. They sought to have a three-judge district court convened pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2284,2 to have the…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- City of Mobile v. BoldenSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Whitcomb v. ChavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Burns v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of ColoradoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by22 opinions
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- Knox v. Milwaukee County Board of Elections CommissionersDistrict Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1984
- Marshall v. MeadowsDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1996
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