Federal Natl. Mtge. Assn. v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a local government must draw its legislative districts in compliance with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
• explaining that right to vote \is infringed when legislators are elected from districts of substantially unequal population\
• mandating that the commissioners court verify population compliance of county election precincts each odd-numbered year
• holding that a qualified voter in a local election had a right to have his vote counted with substantially the same weight as those of other qualified voters when the local officials exercised “general governmental powers over the entire geographic area served by the body”
• emphasizing that al though the “forms and functions of local government and the relationships among the various units are matters of state concern ... a State’s political subdivisions must comply with the Fourteenth Amendment”
• applying equal population principle to five- member county commissioners court where the court had administrative, executive, and judicial functions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).