Legal Opinion
North Carolina v. Covington
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 28, 2018No. 17-1364PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Per curiam
This appeal arises from a remedial redistricting order entered by the District Court in a racial gerrymandering case we have seen before. The case concerns the redistricting of state legislative districts by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2011, in response to the 2010 census. A group of plaintiff voters, appellees here, alleged that the General Assembly racially gerrymandered their districts when-in an ostensible effort to comply with the requirements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965-it drew 28 State Senate and State House of Representatives districts comprising majorities of black…
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