Final Report of the Voting Rights Initiative
The final report includes an analysis of 331 lawsuits brought under Section 2 since the Voting Rights Act was amended in 1982, for which there is at least one published opinion in a Federal Reporter or on Westlaw or LexisNexis.
Plaintiff Rate of Favorable Outcome: 123
Voting Rights Plaintiffs granted a remedy in court: 37.2%
The Voting Rights Initiative Database and Final Report present a look at the most complex and difficult cases; the ones that could not be settled by the parties and thus required adjudication by a court in a published opinion.
The VRI Report has been published in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform and is also available at 39 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 643 (2006).
Master lawsuit list, by state and federal circuit.aster lawsuit list, by state and federal circuit.aster lawsuit list, by state and federal circuit.aster lawsuit list, by state and federal circuit.
Analysis of our research results, comparing covered and non-covered jurisdictions: Ellen D. Katz, Not Like the South?
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