[EL] 50% + CVAP Districts

[Justin Levitt]

FWIW, the court in the Texas redistricting case found that mapmakers 
intentionally drew (at least one) district with a bare majority of 
Latino population, but with differential turnout rates designed to 
ensure that these Latino voters would not actually win elections. Texas 
v. US, 2012 WL 3671924, at *30-31.  That case was decided under section 
5 rather than section 2 of the VRA, but I'd expect the fact pattern to 
raise issues similar to the allegations in Jeffers v. Beebe 
<http://redistricting.lls.edu/cases.php#AR>.

Justin

On 12/11/2012 4:59 AM, Chad Dunn wrote:
> That was it.  Thank you all.
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Richard L Engstrom <rengstro at uno.edu 
> <mailto:rengstro at uno.edu>> wrote:
>
>          If the minority group was African American, you might be
>     thinking of Jeffers v. Beebe, ED of Arkansas, September 17, 2012.
>
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>     *Subject:* [EL] 50% + CVAP Districts
>
>     Sorry to bother but I recently saw posted on this Listserv a case
>     wherein the Plaintiffs had challenged under Section 2 of the VRA,
>     districts adopted by a government.  The government had drawn the
>     new boundaries and had included a district with 50% CVAP or
>     greater for a minority population (Latino I believe) but the
>     Plaintiffs claimed the 50%+ district drawn by the government was
>     ineffective.  The Court rejected a claim that a 50% or greater
>     district drawn by the government could amount to vote dilution. I
>     have spent several hours searching Westlaw for the case and cannot
>     locate.  Does anyone on here by chance recall the case?  Thanks in
>     advance.
>
>     Chad Dunn
>
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