United States v. Village of Port Chester

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that high levels of cohesion among Hispanic voters made it highly likely they would plump their votes behind a candidate of choice
• collecting cases mentioning cumulative voting as a remedial option in Voting Rights Act cases
• “[T]he Court does not find that cumulative voting is prohibited by New York law just because the law is silent on the issue.”
• “No specific showing of discriminatory intent is required to prove a Section 2 violation.”
• “The evidence here is clear that in 12 of the 16 elections this Court views as most probative in this case, the candidates of choice of [minority] voters ... were defeated by the candidates of choice of non-[minority] voters.”

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