LOUISIANA ET AL.
v.
UNITED STATES
LOUISIANA ET AL.
UNITED STATES
386 U.S. 270
Supreme Court of the United States (1967)
Positive Treatment
Cited by 4 cases
Per_curiam
Per Curiam.
The motion to affirm is granted and the judgment is affirmed.
Mr. Justice Black and Mr. Justice White are of the opinion that probable jurisdiction should be noted and the case set for hearing.
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Puerto Rican Org. FOR Political Action v. Kusper, 490 F.2d 575 (7th Cir. 1973)…A Louisiana district court found a state statute denying voting assistance to illiterates in conflict with the ban on literacy tests in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. United States v. Louisiana, 265 F.Supp. 703 (E.D.La.1966), aff’d without opinion, 386 U.S. 270, 87 S.Ct. 1023, 18 L.Ed.2d 39 (1967). The court said, “We cannot impute to Congress the self-defeating notion that an illiterate has the right [to] pull the lever of a voting machine, but not the right to know for whom he pulls the lever.” 265 F.Sup…
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Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer v. ELY, 410 F.2d 152 (5th Cir. 1969)…ly 42 U.S.C.A. § 1973l(c) (1) which defines the terms “vote” and “voting” as including “all action necessary to make a vote effective * * As the three-judge court said in United States v. State of Louisiana, E.D.La. 1966, 265 F.Supp. 703, 708, aff’d 386 U.S. 270, 87 S.Ct. 1023, 18 L.Ed.2d 39: “We cannot impute to Congress the self-defeating notion that an illiterate has the right [to] pull the lever of a voting machine, but not the right to know for whom he pulls the lever.” In light of this requirement,…