Source: https://justice.org/what-we-do/enhance-practice-law/publications/trial-magazine/supreme-court-review-race-dominates
Timestamp: 2019-04-20 06:51:02+00:00

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Racial issues remain, as they have been throughout American history, enormously important and deeply divisive. It is therefore to be expected that the U.S. Supreme Court continues to tackle this issue in an array of contexts.
But how do courts determine whether race—as opposed to permissible considerations, such as protecting incumbents or creating a political advantage—is the predominant factor in districting?
Although the facts and many specific issues in the two cases are different, the underlying questions are the same: When is race a predominant factor in districting, and what is enough to justify it?
Colorado—and most jurisdictions—has a rule that a jury verdict cannot be impeached based on statements made during deliberations. But does the Constitution, and its guarantee of a fair trial, require an exception here?
The city of Miami alleges that Bank of America and Wells Fargo targeted residents of predominately minority communities with high-risk loans, knowing the likelihood of defaults would be high. The city contends that the predictable foreclosures undermined its efforts to achieve fair housing policy.
This list of race-based cases is not all-inclusive, but these likely will be some of the most important rulings of the year.
Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law in Irvine, Calif. He can be reached at echemerinsky@law.uci.edu.
136 S. Ct. 2198 (2016).
136 S. Ct. 2056, 2064 (2016) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting).
Shaw v. Reno, 509 U.S. 630 (1993); Miller v. Johnson, 515 U.S. 900 (1995).
141 F. Supp. 3d 515 (E.D. Va. 2015), prob. juris. noted, 136 S. Ct. 2406 (2016) (No. 15-680).
Harris v. McCrory, 159 F. Supp. 3d 600 (M.D.N.C. 2016), prob. juris. noted, 136 S. Ct. 2512 (2016) (No. 15-1262).
Pena-Rodriguez v. People, 350 P.3d 287 (Colo. 2015), cert. granted, 136 S. Ct. 1513 (2016) (No. 15-606).
City of Miami v. Wells Fargo & Co., 801 F.3d 1258 (11th Cir. 2015), cert. granted, 136 S. Ct. 2545 (No. 15-1112); City of Miami v. Bank of America Corp., 800 F.3d 1262 (11th Cir. 2015), cert. granted, 136 S. Ct. 2544 (No. 15-1111). Author is cocounsel for the city of Miami in both of these cases.

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