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The Loyd Jowers trial, known as King family v.Jowers and other unknown co-conspirators, was an American wrongful death lawsuit brought to trial by the family of Martin Luther King Jr. against Loyd Jowers.
[15] [16] Preclearance was the key feature of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 before it was rendered inoperable by the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder . Under the VRA, preclearance required jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination in voting to receive approval from the federal government before implementing any changes to ...
South Carolina v. Katzenbach, 383 U.S. 301 (1966), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that rejected a challenge from the state of South Carolina to the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which required that some states submit changes in election districts to the Attorney General of the United States (at the time, Nicholas Katzenbach). [1]
A man, detained at the Shelby Co. Jail, sits on the bottom bunk of a cell. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said the picture was taken in 2023, and it raises questions about cleanliness beyond the ...
A: I recognize the importance of the General Sessions Court Clerk's office to the operations of Shelby County's largest court system. The clerk's office manages over 165,000 cases a year, both ...
The cause of death for Ramon McGhee, the man who died in Shelby County Jail custody covered in bed bugs and feces, was severe neglect with malnutrition and severe dehydration, Civil Rights ...
Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, 594 U.S. ___ (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case related to voting rights established by the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), and specifically the applicability of Section 2's general provision barring discrimination against minorities in state and local election laws in the wake of the 2013 Supreme Court decision Shelby County v.
The Shelby County Attorney's office hired Meyers, from the Glankler Brown law firm, to continue the proceedings, according to county officials, after the initial ouster petition was dismissed by ...