City of Richmond v. United States

City of Richmond v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 23, 1975 Decided June 24, 1975
Full case name	City of Richmond, Virginia v. United States
Citations	422 U.S. 358 (more) 95 S. Ct. 2296; 45 L. Ed. 2d 245
Case history
Prior	376 F. Supp. 1344 (D.D.C. 1974)
Holding
An annexation reducing the relative political strength of the minority race in the enlarged city as compared with what it was before the annexation does not violate 5 of the Act as long as the postannexation system fairly recognizes, as it does in this case; the minority's political potential.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist
Case opinions
Majority	White, joined by Burger, Stewart, Blackmun, Rehnquist
Dissent	Brennan, joined by Douglas, Marshall
Powell took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

City of Richmond v. United States, 422 U.S. 358 (1975), was a case that upheld Richmond, Virginia's annexation of land from surrounding counties.