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Argued April 19, 1995.
Decided June 29, 1995.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Richard P. Ieyoub, Jr., Attorney General of Louisiana, argued the cause for the state appellants. With him on the briefs were Roy A. Mongrue, Jr., and Angie Rogers LaPlace, Assistant Attorneys General, and Paul R. Baier. Solicitor General Days argued the cause for the United States. With him on the briefs were Assistant Attorney General Patrick, Deputy Solicitor General Bender, Irving L. Gornstein, Jessica Dunsay Silver, and Mark L. Gross.
Edward W. Warren argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief were Christopher Landau and Jay P. Lefkowitz.†
O'Connor, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, and Breyer, JJ., joined. Breyer, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Souter, J., joined, p. 750. Stevens, J.,filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, p. 750. Ginsburg, J., concurred in the judgment.
United States Supreme Court.
Justice O'Connor, delivered the opinion of the Court.
We held in Shaw v. Reno,509 U.S. 630 (1993), that a plaintiff may state a claim for relief under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by alleging that a State "adopted a reapportionment scheme so irrational on its face that it can be understood only as an effort to segregate voters into separate voting districts because of their race,
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