# Williams v. Brown

> Supreme Court of the United States · April 22, 1980 · 446 U.S. 236

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9427895

## Case

- **Full name:** WILLIAMS Et Al. v. BROWN Et Al.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** April 22, 1980
- **Citations:** 446 U.S. 236; 100 S. Ct. 1519; 64 L. Ed. 2d 181; 1980 U.S. LEXIS 125
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Blackmun
- **Judges:** Blackmun, White
- **Cited by:** 32 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Yellow flag:** Reported superseded by statute, as recognized in Thornburg v. Gingles — not on the Supreme Court's list.
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9427895

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the electoral system of voting in Mobile did not violate the rights of the city's Black voters in contravention of the Fifteenth Amendment, since Black voters in Mobile "register and vote without hindrance" and thus their "freedom to vote has not been denied or ab…
- noting that the Supreme Court's decisions "confirm the principle that racially discriminatory motivation is a necessary ingredient of a Fifteenth Amendment violation"
- recognizing the constitutional right "to equal participation in the electoral process"

## Opinion text

Mr. Justice Blackmun,
concurring.
I, of course, must accept the Court’s vacation of the judgment and its remand. If, however, we were to reach the *237 merits, then, in contrast to the result in City of Mobile v. Bolden, ante, p. 55, I would affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals in this case.

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