Legal Opinion
Nevett v. Sides
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 29, 1978No. 76-2951PublishedCited by 132 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
This is the first of four consolidated cases we decide today.1 In all of them, black voters challenge municipal election schemes that provide for the at-large election of certain city officials. The gravamen of their claims is that the black vote in each of the municipalities is, submerged in an unnecessarily large, city-wide electorate and ■consequently that they are unconstitutionally deprived of their right to effective political participation in each of these cities.
Black residents of Fairfield, an industrial suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, brought this action to…
2Cases cited54 opinions
- Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Yick Wo v. HopkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Washington v. DavisSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1911
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3Cited by132 opinions
- Thornburg v. GinglesSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Rogers v. LodgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- United States v. Marengo County CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984
- Whiting v. Jackson State UniversityCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
- Rev. Roy Jones v. The City of LubbockCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1984
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