Perkins v. Matthews

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1971-01-14

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Mr. Justice Harlan, concurring in part ánd dissenting in part. Our role in this case, as the. Court concotly recognizes, is limited to determination whether § 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U. S. C. § 1973c (1964 ed., Supp. V), required the city of Canton to obtain federal approval of the way it proposed to run its 1969 elections. For this reason, I am unable to join the dissenting opinion of Mr. Ju…

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