Dillard v. Baldwin County Board of Education

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• explaining the division of this and other Dillard cases into certain categories, depending on the litigating posture of the defendants
• “By compactness, [Gingles ] does not mean that a proposed district must meet, or attempt to achieve, some aesthetic absolute, such as symmetry or attractiveness.”
• “By compactness, [Gingles] does not mean that a proposed district must meet, or attempt to achieve, some aesthetic absolute, such as symmetry or attractiveness.”
• “[T]he evidence established that the legislature engaged in a century-long pattern and practice of switching between local at-large systems and local single-member district systems as needed to diminish black voting strength.”
• setting forth the history and evolution of the Dillard cases
• focusing on functional approach of effective political representation

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