Subject: jurisdiction if VRA section 5 constitutionality is challenged
From: Rick Hasen
Date: 7/26/2006, 9:27 PM
To: election-law

<x-flowed>If someone files a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the renewed section 5 (or other provision, such as section 203), would the case be filed before a three-judge court?  Or would it go through a normal district court- court of appeal-cert to Supreme Court process?  Is there anything in the Act that speaks to jurisdiction?  If there is a choice of where to file, any thinking on where and when such a challenge would be filed?

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Rick Hasen
William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law
Loyola Law School
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