Letter from Lani Guinier to David Ramage re Voting Rights Conference (page 1)

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September 22, 1982

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Legal Department General, Lani Guinier Correspondence. Letter from Lani Guinier to David Ramage re Voting Rights Conference (page 1), 1982. a878dec7-e392-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/5bca1b24-22e4-46ca-be06-c45d276d356f/letter-from-lani-guinier-to-david-ramage-re-voting-rights-conference-page-1. Accessed April 29, 2025.

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r,,hi,,a NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND
10 Columbus Circle, New York,

EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC,
N.Y, 10019 r (212) 586-83!,7

September 22,1932

Mr. Davtd Ramage, Jr.
Execut,ive Director
The New I{orId Foundatlon
100 Eas t B5th S treet,
New York, N. Y. 10028

Dear Davld:

The NAAC? Legal Defense Fund seeks support, for a
Voting Rlghts Conference to discuss st,raLegies for litl
gating cases under the new Voting RlghEs Act. We hope to
hold thls meeting in New 0rleans ln Ehe FaIl- of 1982. We
expect to {nvLte slxty Iawyers, twenty soclal s,clence
.experts and schoLare and Ewenty representatlves of communlty
orgarrj-zations.

Ln June, CongresB extended for 25 years the opeclal
provlelons of the 1965 Votlng RdghEs Act; tt smended Sectlon
2 of, the Acl to aIJ.ow challengers to dlscrlmlnatory votln!"
practlces to prevall- wlthout havtng to.prove Lntent. Rather,
they would have to show only that the practice j-n ques tion has
a dis criminatory result. In addition, last. term Ehe Suprerne
Court in Rogers v. Lodge announced a standard for proving
discriminatory intent in voting dilution eases broughE under
Ehe Constitution that appears to temper the rigorous evidentiary
standard of City of MobiIe v. Bolden.

This conference would give us a chance to talk with civil
rlghts attorneys, scholars and activis ts about Ehese signifi-
cant, changes in the Iaw. The goals of Ehe conference are t,hree-
f oId:

To insplre more attorneys to become
involved in voting rights liEigation;
we hope to involve conference Partici-
pants in a voLing rights program on a
continued basis and to establish a neu-
work of voting rights lawyers.

To help LDF and ptu"!ilioners analyze
and undersLand the f"#slat,ive history
of the I9B2 extensl.on,.p&rticularly the

Contributions are deductiltle Jor U,S. incomc tots put'poses

The NAACP LEGAL 0EFENSE & E0UCATI0NAL FUN0 is not part ol the National Association lor lhe Advancement of Colored People although il
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