550 F. Supp. 2d 594 - Dean v. Leake’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 13 U.S.C. § 141 · 28 U.S.C. § 1441 · 28 U.S.C. § 1443 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Elrod v. Burns · Reynolds v. Sims · Thornburg v. Gingles · Wesberry v. Sanders · Florida v. Tyvessel Tyvorus White
Most-quoted passages
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“Under a state plan in which the least-populated district deviates 5.9% below the ideal, and the most-populated district deviates 3.9% above the ideal, the Brown/Daly calculation yields a maximum population deviation of 9.8%, within the. 10% safe harbor absent invidious intent. Under Stephenson I, however, the same plan would violate the one-person, one-vote requirement by virtue of the least-populated district deviating more than 5% from the ideal, without reference to the percentage deviation of the most-populated district.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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