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United States voting rights act section 2vote dilution

Johnson v. De Grandy

512 U.S. 997 (1994)
JurisdictionUnited States
CourtSupreme Court of the United States
Year1994
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A vote-dilution claim under section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is not established merely by satisfying the three Gingles preconditions; the court must weigh the totality of circumstances, in which rough proportionality between minority-controlled districts and the minority share of the voting-age population is a relevant, though not dispositive, factor.

Area of Law

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