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US appeals court curtails key avenue to enforce voting rights law
A federal appeals court foreclosed on Wednesday one of the main remaining means by which civil rights activists could enforce ...
Federal appeals court deals major blow to Voting Rights Act
A federal appeals court on Wednesday shut down the ability of private individuals to bring Voting Rights Act lawsuits ...
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A ‘mean-spirited’ Texas map goes before a conservative appeals court that could make it a new standard
Judge Edith Jones of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals ... 5th Circuit Court – with the Supreme Court refusing to intervene – the contested map will be in effect for the 2024 election ...
A National Appellate Court? Why This Law Professor is Urging Circuit-Level Reform and What it Could Look Like
"Instead of having discrete, regional circuits where one party can dramatically outnumber the other and where litigants and ...
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Voting Rights Act doesn’t protect coalitions of racial or ethnic groups challenging political maps, appeals court rules
See our AI policy, and give us feedback ... band together to claim that political maps constitute discriminatory gerrymandering, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a Galveston County ...
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US appeals court curtails key avenue to enforce voting rights law
(Reuters) -A federal appeals court foreclosed on Wednesday ... Dakota to challenge unfair voting maps. Those states are within the jurisdiction of the 8th Circuit, which had already severely ...