Legal Opinion
Zelma C. Wyche v. The Madison Parish Police Jury
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 2, 1981No. 79-1830PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge.
The reapportionment of legislative bodies to accord one person one vote assures equal protection of voters as electors. Even when voters are afforded numerical equality as members of the polity, racial discrimination may prompt a subtle form of gerrymandering that in effect makes a vote by the voter of one race less important than the ballot of the voter of another race, and thus violates the fourteenth amendment by denying one group of voters equal protection because of their race even where their ballots have the same apparent weight. Yet it is fundamental that…
2Cases cited46 opinions
- Baker v. CarrSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Wesberry v. SandersSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Gomillion v. LightfootSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- City of Mobile v. BoldenSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
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3Cited by41 opinions
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- Major v. TreenDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1983
- Regionald Seastrunk v. Gerald BurnsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1985
- Willie J. Rollins, and Ervin O. Grice, and League of United Latin American Citizens 188, Movant-Appellant v. Fort Bend Independent School DistrictCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1996
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