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· 6/23/1975

Sumter County Democratic Executive Committee v. W. E. Dearman, Etc.

Citations

  • 514 F.2d 1168
  • 1975 U.S. App. LEXIS 14064

How courts have described this case

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

  • Three-judge court must decide whether a change in voting procedure occurred and therefore is subject to § 5
  • the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals did not void the election and followed the Supreme Court’s lead in Perkins, leaving the question of the appropriate remedy to the three-judge court

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Judges: Brown, Murrah, Wisdom

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