Elrod v. United States

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• “[T]he record before us sheds no light on the problem, and the city’s own statement of mootness cannot support an affirmance on that ground.”
• claim for injunctive relief requiring multilingual ballots in a particular election was moot after the election was held, but sufficiency of the city's current compliance with Voting Rights Act was a live controversy
• good faith is no defense to equitable relief regarding bilingual ballot provisions
• parties must bring complaints forward for preelection adjudication

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).