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5 Aug 2011, 11:32 am by Courtney Minick
The courts plan to save “historically important” case files, such as those involving “state reapportionment cases, civil rights voting cases, treason, national security, family farm, historic bankruptcy cases, and death penalty habeas corpus cases.” [read post]
18 Jul 2016, 3:35 pm by Neil Siegel
Supreme Court and only on the merits of historic cases can help one to perceive certain important phenomena, but it disables one from seeing others. [read post]
23 Jul 2019, 9:06 am by David A. Martin
The census and gerrymandering cases are the jurisprudential heirs to that technique. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 11:42 am by Rick Hasen
Using this principle, which originated in the reapportionment cases of the 1960s, the Court has invalidated structures that undermine two preconditions of representative government: majority rule and effective representation of minorities in the political process. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 10:04 am by Gerard N. Magliocca
Since the reapportionment cases do not apply to interstate disparities in voting weight (neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives comply with "one-person, one-vote" as between states), maybe that bars such a claim for interstate convention delegate disparities. [read post]
12 Nov 2019, 1:48 pm by Georgialee Lang
The appeal panel did not accede to this argument noting that pleadings in family law cases consists of a template with check boxes and schedules. [read post]
6 Oct 2016, 8:51 am by Guest Blogger
The Supreme Court’s rulings in cases such as Wesberry v. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 5:53 pm by Lawrence Solum
The principle of district-community congruence thus animates much of the relevant case law already. [read post]
2 Mar 2009, 3:47 am
Smith concludes as follows: "In the great legislative reapportionment cases of the 1960s, the Supreme Court defined democratic government as majority rule based on the principle of one person, one vote. [read post]
27 Mar 2017, 2:29 pm by Alfred Brophy
Rev. 282(1953); Women Jurors, Journal of the American Judicature Society, April 1961; The Reapportionment Cases: A Conservative Defense of Individual Rights; 43 Nebraska L. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 2:00 am by DONALD SCARINCI
” As Justice Breyer explained: In sum, in a case like this one, those attacking a state-approved plan must show that it is more probable than not that a deviation of less than 10% reflects the predominance of illegitimate reapportionment factors rather than the “legitimate considerations” to which we have referred in Reynolds and later cases. [read post]
24 Nov 2020, 10:00 am by John Baker
The case famously established the doctrine of one-person-one-vote in congressional elections. [read post]
The suit alleged that the Arkansas House of Representatives reapportionment plan dilutes the voting power of Black people. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 10:56 am by Courtney Minick
In Holt v. 2011 Legislative Reapportionment Comm’n, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court considered the issue of redistricting. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 10:56 am by Courtney Minick
In Holt v. 2011 Legislative Reapportionment Comm’n, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court considered the issue of redistricting. [read post]
3 Nov 2021, 9:30 pm by ernst
: The Solicitor General’s Not So ‘Special’ Relationship–Archibald Cox and the 1963-1964 Reapportionment Cases” won the Society’s Hughes-Gossett Prize in 2006.Finally, Mark Killenbeck, the Wylie H. [read post]