Presley v. Etowah County Comm'n

Presley v Etowah County Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 12, 1991 Decided January 27, 1992
Full case name	Lawrence C. Presley, etc., Appellant, v. Etowah County et al. Ed Peter Mack and Nathaniel Gosha, III, etc., Appellants, v. Russell County Commission et al
Citations	502 U.S. 491 (more) 112 S. Ct. 820; 117 L. Ed. 2d 51
Case history
Prior	Jurisdictional Statement for the Appellant at A-I, Presley v. Etowah County Comm'n M.D. Ala.
Holding
Neither the Common Fund Resolution nor adoption of the Unit System was a change "with respect to voting" covered by § 5. Pp. 827-832.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Case opinions
Majority	Kennedy, joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, Souter, Thomas
Dissent	Stevens, joined by White, Blackmun
Laws applied
Voting Rights Act of 1965

Presley v. Etowah County Commission, 502 U.S. 491 (1992), was a United States Supreme Court voting rights case where the Court held by a 6—3 majority that the abolition of road districts did not violate the Fifteenth Amendment or the Voting Rights Act of 1965.