North Carolina v. Convington

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the Supreme Court has never addressed whether a special election may be a proper remedy for an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and reversing a federal district court that ordered special elections without adequately weighing the interests at stake
• noting that the Supreme Court has never addressed whether a special election may be a proper remedy for an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and reversing a federal district court that ordered special elections without adequately weighing the interests at stake
• reminding us that, in fashioning injunctive relief, courts must balance “what is necessary, what is fair, and what is workable”
• “Relief in redistricting cases is fashioned in the light of well-known principles of equity.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• first quoting NAACP v. Hampton Cnty. Election Comm’n, 470 U.S. 166, 183 n.36 (1985), and then quoting New York v. Cathedral Acad., 434 U.S. 125, 129 (1977)
• discussion of the equities involved in ordering special elections in redistricting context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Adrian Fowler v. Jocelyn Benson
  Sixth Circuit· 2019-05-08· cited 54×
• Patrick Collins v. Steven Mnuchin, Secretar
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-09-06· cited 51×
• FTC v. Amg Capital Management, LLC
  Ninth Circuit· 2018-12-03· cited 34×
• North Carolina v. Covington
  Supreme Court· 2018-06-28· cited 28×
• Roe v. Shanahan
  E.D. Virginia· 2019-02-15· cited 19×
• State of Nebraska v. Joseph Biden, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 2022-11-14· cited 17×
• Covington v. North Carolina
  M.D. North Carolina· 2017-09-19· cited 11×
• Covington v. North Carolina
  M.D. North Carolina· 2017-07-31· cited 8×
• Franklin v. Sessions
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 2017-12-21· cited 7×
• League of Women Voters of Mich. v. Benson
  E.D. Michigan· 2019-04-25· cited 6×
• Wright v. Sumter Cnty. Bd. of Elections
  M.D. Georgia· 2018-08-20· cited 3×
• Veasey v. Abbott
  S.D. Texas· 2017-08-23· cited 2×
• Dickson v. Rucho
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 2017-09-28· cited 1×
• Rebecca Clarke v. Wisconsin Elections Commission
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 2023-12-22· cited 1×
• NC State Conf. Of The Nat'l Ass'n For The Advancement Of Colored People v. Moore
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2020-09-15
• Billie Johnson v. Wisconsin Elections Commission
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 2021-11-30
• Navajo Nation v. San Juan County
  D. Utah· 2017-07-14
• N.C. Democratic Party v. Berger
  M.D. North Carolina· 2018-01-31
• NC NAACP v. Moore
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 2022-08-19
• Dickson v. Rucho
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 2017-10-09

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 2008-11-12· cited 11,986×
• Reynolds v. Sims
  Supreme Court· 1964-10-12· cited 3,703×
• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-07· cited 2,178×
• National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Hampton County Election Commission
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-27· cited 96×
• New York v. Cathedral Academy
  Supreme Court· 1977-12-06· cited 78×
• Covington v. North Carolina
  M.D. North Carolina· 2016-08-11· cited 21×