# Williams v. Brown

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

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9427896

## 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:** Dissent by White
- **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- **Yellow flag:** Reported superseded by statute, as recognized in Thornburg v. Gingles — not on the Supreme Court's list.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/9427896

## 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 White,
dissenting.
Because the decision below in this case is based on findings of fact and conclusions of law virtually identical to those in City of Mobile v. Bolden, ante, p. 55, I dissent for the reasons stated in my opinion in that case, ante, p. 94.

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