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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 ...
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 ...
The leading Supreme Court case in the area of the political question doctrine is Baker v. Carr (1962). [5] [4] In that case, the Supreme Court held that an unequal apportionment of a state legislature may have denied equal protection and presented a justiciable issue. [4]
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. Central cities – which had long been under-represented – were now losing population to the suburbs and were not greatly affected.
The same law was successfully challenged four years later in Griswold v. Connecticut. 5–4 Baker v. Carr: 1962: Held that voters have standing to litigate when their Constitutional Right to vote in the United States is infringed. 7–2 Epperson v. Arkansas: 1968
The female inmates’ cases were settled; Moore’s case was administratively closed, after he became ill. By the mid-1990s, Esmor had expanded far beyond its New York City origins, winning contracts to manage a boot camp for young boys and adults outside of Forth Worth, Texas, and immigration detention centers in New Jersey and Washington state.
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 ...