Bartlett v. Strickland
- Decided
- March 9, 2009
- Docket
- 07-689
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
Cited 2,505 timesNo negative treatment found in this library
What later courts said
- holding that under Fed. R. Evid. 201 a court may take judicial notice of “matters of public record” — Gabaldon v. Maricopa, County of (2022)
- holding that the State's creation of certain "crossover” State districts to enhance minority voting power was not required by the VRA and therefore violated the “whole county” provision of the State constitution — North Carolina State Conference of NAACP v. McCrory (2016)
- holding that the Voting Rights Act requires minorities to make up more than fifty percent of a voting district in order for there to be a mandated “majority-minority” district — Rossito-Canty v. Cuomo (2015)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
[*6] Justice Kennedy announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion, in which The Chief Justice and Justice Alito join.
This case requires us to interpret §2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,79 Stat. 487, as amended, 42 U. S. C. § 1973 (2000 ed.). The question is whether the statute can be invoked to require state officials to draw election-district lines to allow a racial minority to join with other voters to elect the minority’s candidate of choice, even where the racial minority is less than 50 percent of the voting-age population in the district to be drawn. To use election-law terminology: In a district that is not a majority-minority district, if a racial minority could elect its candidate of choice with support from crossover majority voters, can § 2 require the district to be drawn to accommodate this potential?
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Bartlett v. Strickland, 556 U.S. 1 (2009)Read the full opinion
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