Jesus Salas, Agustin Negrete and Benjamin Menchaca v. Southwest Texas Junior College District

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the Gingles analysis “is an inquiry into causation— whether the given electoral practice is responsible for plaintiffs' inability to elect their preferred representatives”
• rejecting challenge to at-large districts where Hispanic lack of electoral success was caused by lower turnout, not dilution
• rejecting challenge to at-large districts where Hispanic lack of electoral success was caused by lower turnout, not dilution
• providing thorough discussion of the “kind of ‘minority’ the [VRA] protects”
• \The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 to effectuate the guarantees of the Fifteenth Amendment.\
• proof of causality required; ultimate inquiry is whether at-large system causes vote dilution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).