Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama
| Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama | |||||||
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| Argued November 12, 2014 Decided March 25, 2015 | |||||||
| Full case name | Alabama Legislative Black Caucus, et al., Appellants v. Alabama, et al.; Alabama Democratic Conference, et al., Appellants v. Alabama, et al. | ||||||
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13–895 13–1138 | ||||||
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| Majority | Breyer, joined by Kennedy, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan | ||||||
| Dissent | Scalia, joined by Roberts, Thomas, Alito | ||||||
| Dissent | Thomas | ||||||
Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama, 575 U.S. ___ (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case relating to gerrymandering in Alabama. The Court held that, in an earlier ruling, a district court analysis of the legislative black caucus' racial gerrymandering claim as referring to the state “as a whole,” rather than district by district, was without merit. [1]
Opinion of the Court
In a 5-4 decision, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer delivered the Court's opinion, vacating the ruling by the District Court and rejecting the black legislators' claim of "racial gerrymander."[2]
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References
External links
- Slip opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court
- SCOTUSblog coverage
- Oyez.org coverage
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