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Type
Dissent
Filed
March 9, 2009
Case
Bartlett v. Strickland
Case status
Decided

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Justice Breyer, dissenting. I join Justice Souter’s opinion in full. I write separately in light of the plurality’s claim that a bright-line 50% rule (used as a Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U. S. 30 (1986), gateway) serves administrative objectives. In the plurality’s view, that rule amounts to a relatively simple administrative device that will help separate at the outset those cases that are mo…

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