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SHELBY COUNTY, ALA. v. HOLDER

No. 12-96.

133 S.Ct. 2612 (2013)

186 L.Ed.2d 651

SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA, Petitioner v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 25, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bert W. Rein , for Petitioner.

Donald E. Verrilli, Jr. , Solicitor General, for Federal Respondent.

Debo P. Adegbile , for Respondents Bobby Pierson, et al.

Frank C. Ellis, Jr. , Wallace, Ellis, Fowler, Head & Justice, Columbiana, AL, Bert W. Rein , William S. Consovoy , Thomas R. McCarthy , Brendan J. Morrissey , Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Kim Keenan , Victor L. Goode , Baltimore, MD, Arthur B. Spitzer , Washington, D.C., David I. Schoen , Montgomery, AL, M. Laughlin McDonald , Nancy G. Abudu , Atlanta, GA, Steven R. Shapiro , New York, NY, for Respondent-Intervenors Bobby Pierson, Willie Goldsmith, Sr., Mary Paxton-Lee, Kenneth Dukes, and Alabama State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Sherrilyn Ifill , Director-Counsel, Debo P. Adegbile , Elise C. Boddie , Ryan P. Haygood , Dale E. Ho , Natasha M. Korgaonkar , Leah C. Aden , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY, Joshua Civin , NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., Washington, DC, Of Counsel: Samuel Spital , William J. Honan , Harold Barry Vasios , Marisa Marinelli , Robert J. Burns , Holland & Knight LLP, New York, NY, for Respondent-Intervenors Earl Cunningham, Harry Jones, Albert Jones, Ernest Montgomery, Anthony Vines, and William Walker.

Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. , Solicitor General, Thomas E. Perez , Assistant Attorney General, Sri Srinivasan , Deputy Solicitor General, Sarah E. Harrington , Assistant to the Solicitor General, Diana K. Flynn , Erin H. Flynn , Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Federal Respondent.

Jon M. Greenbaum , Robert A. Kengle , Mark A. Posner , Maura Eileen O'Connor, Washington, D.C., John M. Nonna , Patton Boggs LLP, New York, NY, for Respondent-Intervenor Bobby Lee Harris.

Chief Justice ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 employed extraordinary measures to address an extraordinary problem. Section 5 of the Act required States to obtain federal permission before enacting any law related to voting — a drastic departure from basic principles of federalism. And § 4 of the Act applied that requirement only to some States — an equally dramatic departure from the principle that all States...

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