Unlike other jurisdictions, the county never sought a "bailout" or exemption from Section 5 oversight.
From the beginning, Section 5 was controversial and was set to expire in 1982.
Free-speech campaigners have been calling for Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986 to be scrapped.
He will be charged under Section 5 of the Perjury Act which relates to false statutory declarations.
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And you've got to remember, Ed, that only two sections expire, and that's Section 4 and Section 5.
"Many people have said that the existing Section 5 has formed some sort of protection, " she told MPs.
Tell that to the citizens of the five Florida counties covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
Mr. MARTIN: Gonzales spoke to the issue of Section 2, not Section 5.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the liberal wing pressed the lawyer challenging Section 5, Bert Rein, representing Shelby County, Ala.
The preclearance requirement, created by Section 5 of the law, applies to nine states and portions of 13 others.
His Lordship properly looked at the wording of Section 5 of the Public Order Act and applied common sense.
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In such a scenario, Mr. Holder's tactics could well doom Section 5 itself.
Section 5 requires preclearance by the U.S. attorney general of election law changes in jurisdictions covered by the provision.
States covered under Section 5 must have those maps approved by either the Justice Department or a special federal panel.
It has worked in Alabama and it's worked in the states that have been under the Section 5 portion of it.
Known as Section 5, it gives the federal government open-ended oversight of states and localities with a history of voter discrimination.
But the high court also suggested -- but never fully affirmed -- that continued use of Section 5 may soon be nullified.
Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed with the county and upheld Section 5.
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Holder, the case challenging Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
There were no other stories of market significance in Section 5.
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Campaigners say Section 5, which outlaws the use of "insulting words or behaviour" leads to spurious arrests as there is little clarity of what that includes.
Some have posited that because Section 5 is broader than the Sherman Act, it gives the FTC a trump card over these unfavorable antitrust decisions.
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While "some portions of the South have changed, " Shelby County represents "the epitome" of the wrongs Section 5 was designed to address, said Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
What has Mr. Holder on edge is the possibility that the Supreme Court might soon have the opportunity to rule on the continued constitutionality of Section 5.
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And as a Harvard Law Review essay argues, Congress authorized preclearance -- Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act -- under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment.
Lawyers representing Shelby County, Alabama, have said "things have changed in the South", and that Congress should not have extended Section 5 for another 25 years in 2006.
Proponents of Section 5's constitutionality are arguing something like this: The patient's symptoms have improved markedly since we began administering antibiotics, and he now shows no sign of infection.
The lawyer challenging Section 5, Bert Rein, ran into hostile fire from the court's liberal justices, who cited the high number of voting problems found in Shelby County, Ala.
But Ms. Thernstrom thinks that even if Section 5 can survive a new round of judicial scrutiny and the oversight continues, there are demographic reasons for liberals to be worried.
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