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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Elections |
| Title: | GEORGIA v. ASHCROFT |
| Date: | 06/26/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-182 |
| Summary: | A section 2 vote dilution violation under the Voting Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. section 1973 is not an independent reason to deny section 5 preclearance. Any diminution of a minority group's effective exercise of the electoral franchise violates section 5 only if the State cannot show that the gains in the plan as a whole offset the loss in a particular district. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Elections, Tax-exempt Organizations |
| Title: | FED. ELECTION COMM'N v. BEAUMONT |
| Date: | 06/16/03 |
| Case Number: | 02-403 |
| Summary: | Application of the direct contribution prohibition, 2 U.S.C. section 441b, to non-profit advocacy corporations is consistent with the First Amendment. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Elections, Government Law |
| Title: | BRANCH v. SMITH |
| Date: | 03/31/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1437 |
| Summary: | District court properly enjoined a Mississippi court's proposed congressional re-districting plan, as that plan had not been pre-cleared and had no prospect of being pre-cleared in time for the 2002 election, and the district court properly re-fashioned its own congressional reapportionment plan under 2 U.S.C. section 2c. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Construction, Elections, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | CITY OF CUYAHOGA FALLS v. BUCKEYE CMTY. HOPE FOUND. |
| Date: | 03/25/03 |
| Case Number: | 01-1269 |
| Summary: | A city did not violate the Equal Protection Clause by submitting a facially-neutral referendum petition to voters, which called for repeal of a municipal housing ordinance authorizing construction of a low-income housing complex, absent a showing of racially discriminatory intent. |