Elliott v. California

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting the argument that only discrimination by the defendant is relevant to a Section 2 vote-dilution case
• rejecting the argument that only discrimination by the defendant is relevant to a Section 2 vote-dilution case
• admonishing the district court for speculating about how the minority voting population could have been more cohesive
• rejecting the argument that only discrimination by the defendant is relevant to a § 2 vote-dilution case
• stating in a § 2 case that “the district court’s findings will be set aside to the extent that they rest upon an erroneous view of the law”
• noting the Senate Report’s emphasis that the “list of factors was not a mandatory seven-pronged test” but “only meant as a guide to illustrate some of the variables that should be considered by the court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).