DUNCAN, CARROLL COUNTY COMMISSIONER, ET AL.
v.
CITY OF CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, BRANCH OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, ET AL.

U.S. | 1988-03-07
No. 87-1186
485 U.S. 936 Supreme Court of the United States (1988) Negative Treatment
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    …ditions,” operate to eviscerate the ability of minority voters to elect their candidates of choice. Gingles, 478 U.S. at 47, 106 S.Ct. at 2764; see also Carrollton Branch of the NAACP v. Stallings, 829 F. 2d 1547, 1555 (11th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 936, 108 S.Ct. 1111, 99 L.Ed.2d 272 (1988). In 1990, this court divided on the issue of whether voting rights plaintiffs can establish a section 2 violation merely by satisfying the second and third Gingles threshold factors or whether the ultimate in…
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  • …sult-oriented contrivance. . The Butts rule that a single-member office is not physically divisible has been implicitly rejected in Carrollton Branch of NAACP v. Stallings, 829 F. 2d 1547 (11th Cir.1987), cert. denied sub nom. Duncan v. Carrollton, 485 U.S. 936, 108 S.Ct. 1111, 99 L.Ed.2d 272 (1988). In Stall-ings, plaintiffs challenged the one-person form of county commission government in Carroll County, Georgia, because it diluted minority voting strength and lessened the opportunity of black persons…
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    …‘special obligation’ to satisfy itself of its own jurisdiction,” McNasby v. Crown Cork and Seal Co., 832 F. 2d 47, 49 (3d Cir.1987) (citing Bender v. Williamsport Area School Dist. 475 U.S. 534, 106 S.Ct. 1326, 89 L.Ed.2d 501 (1986)), cert. denied, 485 U.S. 936, 108 S.Ct. 1112, 99 L.Ed.2d 273 (1988), as well as the jurisdiction of the court under review. Pomper v. Thompson, 836 F. 2d 131, 132 (3d Cir.1987). When constitutional questions are at issue, “the availability of judicial review is presumed and [c…

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