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[ Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), Docket No. 13-895, Opinion: March 25, 2015, SCOTUS Term: OT 2014]
Limited Summary: Speaking through a general 5 to 4 narrow decision on several voting rights issues, written by Justice Breyer, the SCOTUS ruled, inter alia, simply that any gerrymandering ( dividing a territorial unit into election districts to give one political party an electoral majority in a large number of districts while concentrating the voting strength of the opposition in as few districts as possible ) claim must be analyzed " district by district " and not with respect to the State (in this case, Alabama) as an undifferentiated whole. Actually, all nine justices agreed on this specific point; but there was considerable dissent and disagreement on some other issues in the case.
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