170 F. Supp. 63 - In Re Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1995
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1975 (Civil Rights Commission Act of 1983)
Relies on United States v. Darby · Ex parte Virginia · Endicott Johnson Corp. v. Perkins · Ex parte Siebold · United States v. Reese
Most-quoted passages
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““The authority delegated to the Federal Government by the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is undoubtedly the authority under which the Congress of the United States was acting when the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was passed. The provision in the Act providing for investigation of alleged discriminatory practices, including inspection of voting and other pertinent records, must be considered to be an essential step in the process of enforcing and protecting the right to vote regardless of color, race, religion, or national origin. That part of the Act is, therefore, by this Court considered ‘appropriate legislation’ within the meaning of Section 2 of the Fifteenth Amendment. “The sovereignty of the State of Alabama, or of any other of the states, must yield, therefore, to this expression of the Congress of the United States, since this expression of Congress — by this Act — was passed in a proper exercise of a power specifically delegated to the Federal Government, and the Court cites Ex Parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371 , 25 L.Ed. 717 . This is necessarily true even though the states possess concurrent legislative jurisdiction with respect to voting, since the Federal Government, and its law, is supreme in this area. The Court cites Kohl v. United States, 91 U.S. 367 , 23 L.Ed. 449 . “The concept of the sovereignty of the states is embodied in the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, this amendment providing that those powers are reser”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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