Legal Opinion
Beer v. United States
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 15, 1974No. Civ. A. 1495-73PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge:
The City of New Orleans, Louisiana, seeks a judgment, pursuant to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 1 declaring that its plan of redistricting for councilmanic elections does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color. 1 2 The plan is the City’s current response to the call of its charter for action decennially to assure councilmanic districts approximately equal in population. 3 The City contends that the plan is a projection of legitimate criteria conceived…
2Cases cited86 opinions
- Brown v. Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Reynolds v. SimsSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Gibbons v. OgdenSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
- Dunn v. BlumsteinSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Shelton v. TuckerSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Beer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- John Roy Harper, II v. Edward H. Levi, Attorney General of the United States, (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1975
- Moore v. Leflore County Board of Election CommissionersCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- Wallace v. HouseDistrict Court, W.D. Louisiana · 1974
- Taylor v. McKeithenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
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