Avery v. Midland County, Texas, No. 39
| Court | United States Supreme Court |
| Writing for the Court | WHITE |
| Citation | 390 U.S. 474,88 S.Ct. 1114,20 L.Ed.2d 45 |
| Parties | Hank AVERY, Petitioner, v. MIDLAND COUNTY, TEXAS, et al |
| Docket Number | No. 39 |
| Decision Date | 01 April 1968 |
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511 practice notes
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Equality Foundation of Cincinnati v. Cincinnati, No. C-1-93-773.
...(1964) (invalidating Alabama reapportionment plan which effectively impaired certain citizens' right to vote) and Avery v. Midland County, 390 U.S. 474, 88 S.Ct. 1114, 20 L.Ed.2d 45 (1968) (striking down apportionment plan creating disparity in the weight of residents' votes)). This relianc......
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Simi Valley Recreation & Park Dist. v. Local Agency Formation Com.
...whose design, powers and methods of financing are more closely related to ownership of land. (See Avery v. Midland County (1968) 390 U.S. 474, 484, 88 S.Ct. 1114, 20 L.Ed.2d 45, 'From our review of these cases we draw a general principle: that all residents share a substantial interest in t......
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U.S. v. Charleston County, No. 2:01-0155-23.
...of the United States Supreme Court in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 84 S.Ct. 1362, 12 L.Ed.2d 506 (1964) and Avery v. Midland County, 390 U.S. 474, 88 S.Ct. 1114, 20 L.Ed.2d 45 (1968).44 Unfortunately, there is neither legislative history nor contemporaneous accounts or statements made by......
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Bjornestad v. Hulse
...to the apportionment of state legislatures. Subsequently, the principle was extended to local government (Avery v. Midland County (1968) 390 U.S. 474, 88 S.Ct. 1114, 20 L.Ed.2d 45, [holding the principle applicable to county government officials who had general governmental powers over the ......
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505 cases
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Equality Foundation of Cincinnati v. Cincinnati, No. C-1-93-773.
...(1964) (invalidating Alabama reapportionment plan which effectively impaired certain citizens' right to vote) and Avery v. Midland County, 390 U.S. 474, 88 S.Ct. 1114, 20 L.Ed.2d 45 (1968) (striking down apportionment plan creating disparity in the weight of residents' votes)). This relianc......
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Simi Valley Recreation & Park Dist. v. Local Agency Formation Com.
...whose design, powers and methods of financing are more closely related to ownership of land. (See Avery v. Midland County (1968) 390 U.S. 474, 484, 88 S.Ct. 1114, 20 L.Ed.2d 45, 'From our review of these cases we draw a general principle: that all residents share a substantial interest in t......
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U.S. v. Charleston County, No. 2:01-0155-23.
...of the United States Supreme Court in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 84 S.Ct. 1362, 12 L.Ed.2d 506 (1964) and Avery v. Midland County, 390 U.S. 474, 88 S.Ct. 1114, 20 L.Ed.2d 45 (1968).44 Unfortunately, there is neither legislative history nor contemporaneous accounts or statements made by......
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Bjornestad v. Hulse
...to the apportionment of state legislatures. Subsequently, the principle was extended to local government (Avery v. Midland County (1968) 390 U.S. 474, 88 S.Ct. 1114, 20 L.Ed.2d 45, [holding the principle applicable to county government officials who had general governmental powers over the ......
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6 books & journal articles
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Prison Malapportionment: Forging a New Path for State Courts.
...districts than in congressional districts. See, e.g., Mahan v. Howell, 410 U.S. 315, 322-23 (1973). (148.) See Avery v. Midland Cry., 390 U.S. 474, 476 (1968). Notably, however, the constitutional one-person, one-vote principle does not apply to judicial (149.) See Randal S. Jeffrey, Equal ......
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Beyond Zero-Sum Environmentalism
...law and that the U.S. Constitution does not protect local governments from state government intrusion). But see Avery v. Midland Cnty., 390 U.S. 474, 482-86 (1968) (holding that a state may not create a general purpose local government that apportions voting unequally in violation of the Co......
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INTRASTATE PREEMPTION: A NEW FRONTIER IN BURDENING CHOICE.
...get a crazy quilt, of course, as a consequence of state and local political choices...."). (34) See id. (35) Avery v. Midland Cty., 390 U.S. 474, 481 (36) See David J. Barron, Reclaiming Home Rule, 116 HARV. L. REV. 2255 (2003). (37) See id. (38) Avery, 390 U.S. at 481. (39) See San Antonio......
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The Supreme Court of the United States, 1969-1970
...impact throughout the district to justifythe conclusion that the principle which we applied in Avery [Avery v. Midland C, ounty, 390 U.S. 474, 1968] should also be applied here.&dquo; (Pp. 53-54.) opinion concluded that when persons are being selected by popular election toperform governmen......
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