Legal Opinion
Branch v. Smith
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 31, 2003No. 01-1437PublishedCited by 254 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Scalia
In these cases, we decide whether the District Court properly enjoined a Mississippi state court’s proposed congressional redistricting plan and whether it properly fashioned its own congressional reapportionment plan rather than order at-large elections.
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The 2000 census caused Mississippi to lose one congressional seat, reducing its representation in the House of Representatives from five Members to four. The state legislature, however, failed to pass a new redistricting plan after the decennial census results were published in 2001. In anticipation of the March 1, 2002, state-law deadline…
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