Standing and misunderstanding in voting rights law
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Professor John Hart Ely presents a disappointing analysis of the issue of race in the political process by using standing as the focal point of his attempts to discern meaning from the US Supreme Court's problematic decisions. Underlying those reapportionment and voting rights cases is the issue of whether race should be a factor in allocations of political power. The Court's refusal to acknowledge the reality of race in the political process and its conceptual problems with substantive issues of voting rights undermine Ely's analysis.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 1998
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Civil Rights - Title VI - Fourth Circuit holds that articulated reasons rebut challenges against discriminatory practices. - Ferguson v. City of Charleston
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The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Ferguson v. City of Charleston incorrectly applied a weak justification standard for defendants defending against charges of racial discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The court's standard blurs the distinction between disparate impact and intentional discrimination cases.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 2000
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Race, rights, and remedies: census sampling and the Voting Rights Act
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The author outlines the legal issues surrounding the controversy over the use of statistical sampling to adjust census data to account for allegedly under-counted populations. Topics include the relevance of sampling, sampling litigation in the 1990s, resistance to sampling, and the relevance of the Voting Rights Act.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 2001
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