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Baker v. Carr , 369 U.S. 186 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that redistricting qualifies as a justiciable question under the Fourteenth Amendment 's equal protection clause, thus enabling federal courts to hear Fourteenth Amendment-based redistricting cases.
Poe v. Ullman: 1961: Found a lack of standing to challenge a law banning contraceptives as it had never been enforced, and that the controversy was not yet ripe. The same law was successfully challenged four years later in Griswold v. Connecticut. 5–4 Baker v. Carr: 1962
369 U.S. 134 (1962) application of the Pullman abstention doctrine: Fong Foo v. United States: 369 U.S. 141 (1962) double jeopardy against federal courts Baker v. Carr: Redistricting, malapportionment: 369 U.S. 186 (1962) malapportionment of electoral districts; equal protection clause; one person, one vote: Goldblatt v. Hempstead: 369 U.S. 590 ...
Colegrove v. Green, 328 U.S. 549 (1946) – Apportionment of Congressional districts is a political question (Overruled by Baker v. Carr). Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962) – Apportionment of state legislatures is not a political question. Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 (1969) – Congressional authority to exclude members who have met ...
The one man, one vote cases (Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims ) of 1962–1964, had the effect of ending the over-representation of rural areas in state legislatures, as well as the under-representation of suburbs.
The first modern application of the Equal Protection Clause to voting law came in Baker v. Carr (1962), where the Court ruled that the districts that sent representatives to the Tennessee state legislature were so malapportioned (with some legislators representing ten times the number of residents as others) that they violated the Equal ...
In Baker v. Carr, Frankfurter's position was that the federal courts did not have the right to tell sovereign state governments how to apportion their legislatures; he thought the Supreme Court should not get involved in political questions, whether federal or local. [61] Frankfurter's view had won out in the 1946 case preceding Baker, Colegrove v.
He authored numerous landmark case opinions, including: Baker v. Carr (1962), establishing that the apportionment of legislative districts is a justiciable issue; New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964), which required "actual malice" in libel suits brought by public officials; Eisenstadt v.