# Nixon v. Kent County

> Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · February 2, 1996 · 76 F.3d 1381

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6937810

## Case

- **Full name:** Debra NIXON, Johnny Griffin, Sr., Bill Brown, Juan Jimenez, Sara Ramirez, and Marshall Chavez, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated v. KENT COUNTY, Thomas Shearer, Maurice DeJonge, John Boerema, and William Forsyth
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- **Decided:** February 2, 1996
- **Citations:** 76 F.3d 1381; 1996 WL 38985
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Martin
- **Judges:** Batchelder, Boggs, Daughtrey, Jones, Keith, Kennedy, Martin, Merritt, Milburn, Moore, Nelson, Norris, Ryan, Siler, Suhrheinrich
- **Cited by:** 42 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the amendments to the Voting Rights Act did “not ... reflect a broad and boundless ‘trend’ to expand the Act to protect classes not described in the Act, or to protect combinations of classes not described in the Act”

## Opinion text

BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
Judge Keith has very ably stated my position in sections I, II and IIIA of his dissent, and I join with him in those parts. I also join Judge Jones’ dissent for it speaks so well to our loss of an historic perspective in this most vital issue of the right to vote for a candidate of one’s choice.

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