 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1955 - 486 páginas
...in an essentially political contest be dressed up in the abstract phrases of the law (pp. 553-554) . South v. Peters involved a challenge of the Georgia...or to desist. Fergus v. Marks (321 111. 510, 152 NE 557 ( 1926) ) ; McChord v. Louisville & N. R. Co. (183 US 483 (1902)). On the general doctrine of political... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1960 - 782 páginas
...county unit system in Georgia violated the Fourteenth and Seventeenth Amendments. The Court said that "Federal courts consistently refuse to exercise their equity powers in cases posing politictel issues arising from a state's geographical distribution of electoral strength among its... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1961 - 1102 páginas
...one of judicial power but of its proper exercise. The decision was embodied in a single sentence : 'Federal courts consistently refuse to exercise their...cases posing political issues arising from a State's geographical distribution of electoral strength among its political subdivisions' (emphasis added).... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1961 - 240 páginas
...Supreme Court affirmed dismissal of the suit in a per curiam opinion with these words of explanation : "Federal courts consistently refuse to exercise their...cases posing political issues arising from a State's geographical distribution of electoral strength among its political subdivisions." *8 Mr. Justice Douglas,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1961 - 1124 páginas
...exercise. The decision was embodied in a single sentence : 'Federal courts consistently refuse to ciercix their equity powers in cases posing political issues arising from a State's geographical distribution of electoral strength among its political subdivisions' (emphasis added).... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Felix Frankfurter, John Marshall Harlan - 1962 - 28 páginas
...276, another suit attacking Georgia's county-unit law, it affirmed a District Court dismissal, saying "Federal courts consistently refuse to exercise their...cases posing political issues arising from a State's geographical distribution of electoral strength among its political subdivisions." Id., at 277. Of... | |
 | United States Commission on Civil Rights - 1961 - 414 páginas
...equitable grounds to enter a "political thicket," but acknowledged the Court's power to do so : 68 Federal courts consistently refuse to exercise their...cases posing political issues arising from a state's geographical distribution of electoral strength among its political subdivisions. There again an election... | |
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The express words of our holding were that "federal courts consistently refuse to exercise their equity powers in cases posing political issues arising from a state's geographical distribution of electoral strength among its political subdivisions. 
