BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF HINDS COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, ET AL.

v.

KIRKSEY ET AL.

Citator

Cited By (48 total)

• Branti v. Finkel, 445 U.S. 507 (U.S. 1980)
  …bilities of an official such as a prosecutor. We express no opinion as to whether the deputy of such an official could be dismissed on grounds of political party affiliation or loyalty. Cf. Newcomb v. Brennan, 558 F. 2d 825 (CA7 1977), cert. denied, 434 U. S. 968 (dismissal of deputy city attorney). As the District Court observed at the end of its opinion, it is difficult to formulate any justification for tying either the selection or retention of an assistant public defender to his party affiliation: “Pe…
• Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30 (U.S. 1986)
  …imination such as inferior education, poor employment opportunities, and low incomes. See, e. g., White v. Regester, 412 U. S., at 768-769; Kirksey v. Board of Supervisors of Hinds County, Miss., 554 F. 2d 139, 145-146 (CA5) (en banc), cert. denied, 434 U. S. 968 (1977). See also S. Verba & N. Nie, Participation in America 152 (1972). The Senate Report acknowledges this tendency and instructs that “the extent to which members of the minority group . . . bear the effects of discrimination in such areas as…
• United States v. The City OF Miami, 664 F.2d 435 (5th Cir. 1981)
  …F. 2d at 850; City of Detroit v. Grinnell Corp., 495 F. 2d 448, 455 (2d Cir. 1974). . Although the ordinance has never been introduced as evidence, we can take judicial notice of it. Newcomb v. Brennan, 558 F. 2d 825, 829 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 968, 98 S.Ct. 513, 54 L.Ed.2d 455 (1977); Bryant v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 407 F. 2d 576, 579-80 & n.2 (4th Cir. 1969); United States v. A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp., 76 F. 2d 617, 623 (2d Cir.), rev’d on other grounds, 295 U.S. 495, 55 S.Ct. 837, 79…