Legal Opinion
Mars Ketchum v. Jane M. Byrne
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 10, 1984No. 83-2044, 83-2065 and 83-2126PublishedCited by 144 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs, including individual black and Hispanic residents of the City of Chicago, sued several individual defendants and the City Council of the City of Chicago alleging that the 1981 redistricting plan for the aldermanic wards of Chicago violated section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended on June 29, 1982, by Pub.L. No. 97-205, § 3, 96 Stat. 134 (1982), 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (1982), the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution, various federal civil rights statutes and several Illinois constitutional and statutory provisions. The district…
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