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Local Government Law -- 1960 Tennessee Survey, A. E. Ryman, Jr.
Local Government Law -- 1960 Tennessee Survey, A. E. Ryman, Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
This survey is directed to the law peculiar to local government. Although nearly every case involves law applicable to parties other than governmental agencies, the focus of attention here is on the aspects peculiar to such agencies. Critique of the law of general application is not within the scope of this article. Although "Elections and Representation" could be treated (as it was last year) under the topic of "Relations of Local Government and Private Persons," it is separated here to emphasize the logical distinction between laws concerned with the creation of governmental agencies on the theory that power is derivative …
Civil Rights - Elections - Federal Injunction Against Racial Discrimination, Robert Jillson
Civil Rights - Elections - Federal Injunction Against Racial Discrimination, Robert Jillson
Michigan Law Review
In September 1958, in its first complaint under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the United States sought to enjoin certain election registrars and deputy registrars in Terrell County, Georgia from continuing racially-discriminatory practices in their registration of voters. The defendants, claiming the 1957 statute to be unconstitutional, moved for dismissal. The district court granted defendants' motion, rejecting government arguments that the subsection authorizing suit by the United States was limited to cases, like the case before the Court, of discrimination by the state. On direct appeal to the Supreme Court, held, reversed. Because the alleged racial discrimination by …
British Elections And Corrupt Practice Acts, J. E. Reeves
British Elections And Corrupt Practice Acts, J. E. Reeves
Kentucky Law Journal
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