Louis Markeith Williams v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[c]ounty of residence is not a suspect classification warranting heightened scrutiny” unless a “distinction along county lines is a proxy for some other form of discrimination”
• holding that, where a plaintiff has shown less than a likelihood of success 27 5 1 on the merits, a preliminary injunction may not issue unless the remaining three factors are 2 satisfied
• holding that these factors are “on a 18 sliding scale”
• explaining that heightened scrutiny applies when “a state . . . burden[s] a fundamental right for some citizens but not for others”
• noting that an individual state may have a valid interest in “incremental election-system experimentation”
• noting “California’s general interest in increasing voter turnout and specific interest in incremental election-system experimentation”

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