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359 F.3d 1116 · 2004

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
August 2014
most recently cited

11 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · City of Boerne v. Flores · McCleskey v. Kemp · Board of Trustees of the University of Alabamas v. Patricia Garrett · United States v. Morrison

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “id. (emphasis added), but relied instead on statistical disparities in the felony conviction rates of certain minority groups in relation to the general population, the plaintiffs failed to present a genuine dispute of fact on a material issue. Id. at 1120. Second, and more importantly for our purposes, Judge Kozinski concluded that when Congress enacted the”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Muntaqim v. Coombe
  2. “Id. at 1121. Instead, according to Judge Kozinski, Congress merely preserved the exception for felon disenfranchisement that it had carved out of the VRA in 1965. See Id. at 1120. 42 Finally, Judge Kozinski found that extending the VRA to reach felon disenfranchisement laws”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Muntaqim v. Coombe
  3. “). Judge Alex Kozinski, writing for the dissenters, concluded that, by permitting the plaintiffs to bring a claim under the Voting Rights Act, "the panel lays the groundwork for the dismantling of the most important piece of civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Muntaqim v. Coombe

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