Subject: message from Pam Karlan re section 5 claim
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 8/7/2003, 3:02 PM
To: "election-law@majordomo.lls.edu" <election-law@majordomo.lls.edu>
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Pam Karlan wrote:

Regarding the section 5 issue, things are rendered even more complicated by the fact that although three counties in California are covered jurisdictions, the state as a whole isn't.  The U.S. Supreme Court danced around this issue in Lopez v. Monterey County, 525 U.S. 255 (1999).



Pamela S. Karlan
Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law
Stanford Law School
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