White v. Regester
| Decision Date | 30 June 1975 |
| Docket Number | No. 73-1462,73-1462 |
| Citation | White v. Regester, 422 U.S. 935, 95 S.Ct. 2670, 45 L.Ed.2d 662 (1975) |
| Parties | Mark WHITE et al., Appellants, v. Diana REGESTER et al |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Elizabeth B. Levatino, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for appellants.
David R. Richards, Austin, Tex., and Don Gladden, Fort Worth, Tex., for appellees.
We are informed that the State of Texas has adopted new apportionment legislation providing single-member districts to replace the multimember districts which are at issue before us in this case. That statute by its terms does not become effective until the 1976 elections, and intervening special elections to fill vacancies, if any, will be held in the districts involved as constituted on January 1, 1975. Rather than render an unnecessary judg- ment on the validity of the constitutional views expressed by the District Court in this case, which we do not undertake to do at this time, we vacate the judgment of the District Court and...
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Holloway v. City of Virginia Beach
...enough to moot the plaintiffs' lawsuit against the now-altered electoral system. Id. ; see also White v. Regester , 422 U.S. 935, 935–36, 95 S.Ct. 2670, 45 L.Ed.2d 662 (1975) (per curiam) (vacating district court judgment and remanding in light of potential mootness, where state replaced at......
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Graves v. Barnes
...in light of the recent Texas Reapportionment legislation and for dismissal if the case is, or becomes, moot." White v. Regester, 422 U.S. 935, 95 S.Ct. 2670, 45 L.Ed.2d 662 (1975). It is paradoxical that the majority has not once since this case was referred back to this Court in 1976 even ......
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League of United Latin American Citizens, Council No. 4434 v. Clements
...black children away from their neighborhood schools and across town to all-black schools), vacated sub. nom. White v. Regester, 422 U.S. 935, 95 S.Ct. 2670, 45 L.Ed.2d 662 (1975); id. at 654-55 (recognizing that authorities in Lubbock County maintained racially and ethnically segregated sch......
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Associated General Contractors v. SEC. OF COM., ETC., 77-3738-AAH.
...505 (1974); North Carolina v. Rice, 404 U.S. 244, 246, 92 S.Ct. 402, 30 L.Ed.2d 413 (1971). See also White v. Regester, 422 U.S. 935, 95 S.Ct. 2670, 45 L.Ed.2d 662 (1975) (per curiam); Sosna v. Iowa, 419 U.S. 393, 402 n.12, 95 S.Ct. 553, 42 L.Ed.2d 532 (1975). The determination of whether a......
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Race and redistricting: drawing constitutional lines after Shaw v. Reno.
...2821 (referring to the district as "wind[ing] in snake-like fashion"), 2827 (referring to "political apartheid"). (17.) Since White v. Regester, 422 U.S. 935 (1975). (18.) 438 U.S. 265 (1978). (19.) See Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214, 216 (1944). Interestingly, the term strict scr......