JOHNSON, SPEAKER OF THE FLORIDA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, et al.
v.
DE GRANDY et al.
United States Supreme Court.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued October 4, 1993.
Decided June 30, 1994.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Joel I. Klein argued the cause for appellants in No. 92-519 and appellees in Nos. 92-593 and 92-767. With him on the brief for appellees in Nos. 92-593 and 92-767 were Stephen N. Zack, Keith E. Hope, Richard E. Doran, George L. Waas, and Gerald B. Curington. Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Scott A. Sinder, Kevin X. Crowley, James A. Peters, and Messrs. Doran, Waas, and Curington filed briefs for appellants in No. 92-519.
James A. Feldman argued the cause for the United States in all cases. With him on the briefs were Solicitor General Days, Acting Solicitor General Bryson, Acting Assistant Attorney General Turner, Acting Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler, and Jessica Dunsay Silver.
C. Allen Foster argued the cause for appellees in No. 92— 519 and appellants in No. 92-593. With him on the briefs were Robert N. Hunter, Jr., Benjamin L. Ginsberg, Marshall R. Hurley, E. Thom Rumberger, and George N. Meros, Jr. E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., John C. Keeney, Jr., Charles G. Burr, Dennis Courtland Hayes, and Willie Abrams filed a brief in all cases for appellee Florida State Conference of NAACP Branches.†
Souter, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor, and Ginsburg, JJ., joined, and in all but Parts III—B-2, III—B-4, and IV of which Kennedy, J., joined. O'Connor, J., filed a concurring opinion, p. 1025. Kennedy, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, p. 1026. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Scalia, J., joined, p. 1031.
United States Supreme Court.
Justice Souter, delivered the opinion of the Court.
These consolidated cases are about the meaning of vote dilution and the facts required to show it, when § 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is applied to challenges to singlemember legislative districts. See 79 Stat. 437, as amended, 42 U. S. C. § 1973. We hold that no violation of § 2 can be found here, where, in spite of continuing discrimination and racial...
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