On June 29, 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court, with Justice Anthony Kennedy taking the lead, ruled in "League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry" that Bonilla's district violated the Civil Rights Act, although the justices upheld most of the 2003 redistricting. The Court declared that the Texas legislature violated the rights of Latino voters when it cut most of Laredo out of the 23rd. Although the reconfigured 23rd was still 55 percent Latino, only 46 percent of the district's voting-age population was Latino.