Roman v. Sincock

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the Con- stitution requires “faithful adherence to a plan of population-based representation, with such minor deviations only as may occur in recognizing certain factors that are free from any taint of arbitrariness or discrimination” (emphasis added)
• describing-how she intentionally took all of southern Georgia, “lassoed it in as if it were one big-district,” and created a series of districts with negative population deviations in the region
• “[T]hey didn’t want to lose any more representation out of rural south Georgia than they had to”
• “[The negative deviations] are in south Georgia because those folks wanted to minimize their loss of power.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).