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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.
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 ...
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
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.
Landmark Cases: Historic Supreme Court Decisions is a series first aired by C-SPAN in the fall of 2015 about 12 key cases argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.A second season aired in the winter and spring of 2018, in which 12 additional cases were discussed. [1]
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 ...
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.
Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 (1964), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that districts in the United States House of Representatives must be approximately equal in population. Along with Baker v. Carr (1962) and Reynolds v.