United States v. A. T. Beaty, United States of America v. R. J. Barcroft

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• holding that the eviction of sharecroppers as punishment for voter 4 registration constitutes unlawful intimidation
• enjoining the use of economic pressure to coerce black residents from voting
• threats to evict tenants-sharecroppers and to refuse to deal with them in good faith if they exercised their right to vote would constitute coercion
• injunction entered to prohibit the use of economic pressure for purpose of coercing black residents to forgo the exercise of the right to vote
• the Federal Voting Rights Act proscribes retaliatory economic coercion that is not overtly physical and “the fact that the coercion relates to land or contracts [furnishes] no excuse or defense”
• threats of eviction if tenants exercised their right to vote constituted coercion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).