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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 …