Mars Ketchum v. Jane M. Byrne

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1984-09-10

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CUDAHY, Circuit Judge. Plaintiffs, including individual black and Hispanic residents of the City of Chicago, sued several individual defendants and the City Council of the City of Chicago alleging that the 1981 redistricting plan for the aldermanic wards of Chicago violated section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended on June 29, 1982, by <span class="citation no-link…

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