United States Ninth Circuit

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits any voting procedure that results in a denial of the right to vote, is a constitutional exercise of Congress's Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment enforcement powers. Defendant's at-large voting system for electing members to its County Commission was properly found to violate section 2.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/04/2003
• Decided 04/07/2004
• Published 04/07/2004

Judges

• PAEZ, Circuit Judge:, Before: WARDLAW, GOULD, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Scott Detamore, Lakewood, Colorado, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lisa Wilson Edwards, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the appellee.