Nevett v. Sides

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1978-03-29

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TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge: This is the first of four consolidated cases we decide today. 1 In all of them, black voters challenge municipal election schemes that provide for the at-large election of certain city officials. The gravamen of their claims is that the black vote in each of the municipalities is, submerged in an unnecessarily large, city-wide electorate and ■consequently that they are uncons…

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