Legal Opinion
State of Texas v. United States of America
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided December 22, 2011No. Civil Action No. 2011-1303PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
COLLYER, District Judge.
In the summer of 2011, the Texas legislature redrew the boundaries for voting districts in the State to account for the report of the 2010 Census that its population had grown in the last decade by more than four million people, about two-thirds of whom are Hispanic. As required by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, Texas has asked this Court for a declaratory judgment that its redistricting plans have neither the purpose nor the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race, color, or membership in a language minority group.…
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