Enhanced nephrologist motivation and training in PD were identified as predominant factors to be upgraded, as well as patient education programmes.
Kennedy followed up by asking, rhetorically, "How is this case different?" In other words, that provision might not be part of the state constitution, but the state was acting as if it were — that is, using partisan advantage as the predominant factor in redrawing the lines of the district.
By Justice Breyer In this appeal, we review a three-judge district court's determination that North Carolina's Legislature used race as the "predominant factor" in drawing its 12th Congressional District's 1997 boundaries.
More than any of his 434 colleagues in the House, Mr. Watt has been caught between the Voting Rights Act's prohibition against the dilution of minority voting strength and the Supreme Court's 1995 edict that race cannot be used as a predominant factor in designing legislative districts.
Despite the warning from the S.E.C. and pretty conclusive evidence that past performance has very little predictive value, most of us still use performance as the predominant factor in choosing our investments.
The association of Fe with these components during winter explains that the rainfall and rock water mechanism act as a predominant factor in influencing the concentration of Cr in groundwater.
Factor analysis and a linear regression confirmed beach type as the predominant factor with secondary influences from grooming activities (including seaweed densities and beach renourishment) and beach access (including charging fees, employing lifeguards, and without nearby marinas).
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"But it also imposes an important constraint: A State may not use race as the predominant factor in drawing district lines unless it has a compelling reason".
In May, the Supreme Court found that two North Carolina congressional districts were impermissibly drawn using race as a predominant factor, while in March it rejected a lower court's finding that Virginia did not gerrymander its state legislative districts along racial lines.
"When a legislature relies on race as the predominant factor in drawing district lines... it reinforces the perception that members of the same racial group — regardless of their age, education, economic status, or the community in which they live — think alike, share the same political interests, and will prefer the same candidates at the polls," the judges wrote.
