Legal Opinion

Navajo Nation v. San Juan County

District Court, D. Utah

Decided July 14, 2017No. Case No. 2:12-cv-00039Published

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER

ROBERT J. SHELBY, United-States District Judge

Plaintiffs, Navajo Nation and'several individual tribe members (Navajo Nation), sued Defendant San Juan County, "claiming the County Commission and School Board election districts violated the Equal Protection "Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Fifteenth Amendment,.and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1973.1 The court previously found both sets of districts unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause.2 The court did not decide whether the School Board or County Commission districts, violated…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Bartlett v. StricklandSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
  2. Thornburg v. GinglesSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  3. Johnson v. De GrandySupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  4. Shaw v. RenoSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  5. Miller v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1995

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