Riley v. Kennedy

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the benchmark is the last precleared law actually in practice in the covered jurisdiction
• holding that the relevant benchmark is the “most recent practice that was both precleared and in force or effect” (emphasis added) (internal citation and quotation marks omitted)
• noting that Congress repeatedly reauthorized section 5 of the VRA upon a “[f]inding [of] continuing discrimination in access to the ballot”
• “We have long held that an order resolving liability without addressing a plaintiffs requests for relief is not final.”
• “[P]ractical considerations sometimes require courts to allow elections to proceed despite pending legal challenges.”
• “[Practical considerations sometimes require courts to allow elections to proceed despite pending legal challenges.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).