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Shaw v. Reno and the Hunt for Double Cross-Overs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Timothy G. O'Rourke
Timothy G. O'Rourke*
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Clemson University
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 36 - 41
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1995

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Some of the ideas presented here are drawn, in modified form, from O'Rourke 1994. A much longer presentation of my ideas will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Rutgers Law Journal. In the interest of disclosure, I note that I served as an expert witness, pro bono, for the plaintiffs in Shaw v. Hunt (1994). I also testified as an expert for the plaintiffs in Johnson v. Miller, a Shaw-type challenge to Georgia's 11th Congressional District.

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