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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.
After agonizing deeply for months over his vote in Baker v. Carr , a landmark reapportionment case, Whittaker had a nervous breakdown in the spring of 1962. At the behest of Chief Justice Earl Warren , Whittaker recused himself from the case and retired from the Court effective March 31, 1962 due to a certified disability, citing exhaustion ...
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
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 ...
Corn Products Refining Co. v. Commissioner: 350 U.S. 46 (1955) Hedging futures gains are ordinary if on raw materials United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Mobile Gas Service Corp. 350 U.S. 332 (1956) contracts under the Natural Gas Act of 1938: Federal Power Commission v. Sierra Pacific Power Co. 350 U.S. 348 (1956) contracts under the Federal Power Act ...
However, in Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962) the United States Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren overturned the previous decision in Colegrove holding that malapportionment claims under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment were not exempt from judicial review under Article IV, Section 4, as the equal protection ...
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.
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