Gomillion v. Lightfoot

Gomillion v. Lightfoot

SCOTUSCase
Litigants=Gomillion v. Lightfoot
ArgueDateA=October 18
ArgueDateB=19
ArgueYear=1960
DecideDate=November 14
DecideYear=1960
FullName=Gomillion et al. v. Lightfoot, Mayor of Tuskegee, et al.
USVol=364
USPage=339
Citation=364 U.S. 339; 81 S. Ct. 125; 5 L. Ed. 2d 110; 1960 U.S. LEXIS 189
Prior=Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Subsequent=
Holding=Electoral district boundaries drawn only to disenfranchise blacks violate the Fifteenth Amendment.
SCOTUS=1958-1962
Majority=Frankfurter
JoinMajority=Warren, Black, Douglas, Clark, Harlan, Brennan, Stewart
Concurrence=Whittaker
LawsApplied=U.S. Const. amend. XV

"Gomillion v. Lightfoot", 364 U.S. 339 (1960)ref|citation, was a United States Supreme Court decision that found an electoral district created to disenfranchise blacks violated the Fifteenth Amendment.

Decision

In this landmark voting rights case, the Supreme Court was faced with the question of whether or not Act 140 of the Alabama legislature violated the Fifteenth Amendment. Alabama passed Act 140 in 1957, which redistricted the city of Tuskegee using a 28 sided figure. This shape excluded all but a handful of potential African-American votes. Justice Frankfurter issued the opinion of the Court, which held that the Act did violate the provision of the 15th Amendment prohibiting states from denying anyone their right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. As he said in his concurring opinion, Justice Whitaker would have struck it down under the equal protection clause, which is what the Court later did in "Baker v. Carr".

ubsequent history

In the 1980 case "Mobile v. Bolden", the court limited it's holding in "Gomillion" so that racially discriminatory effect "and" intent would be necessary to prompt intervention by federal courts.

ee also

*Gerrymandering
*Hunt v. Cromartie
* [http://laws.findlaw.com/us/364/339.html Full text of the decision courtesy of Findlaw.com]
*List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 364
*"Civil Rights Cases"
*"Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka" (ussc|347|483|1954)
* Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

External links

*ussc|364|339|Text of the opinion on Findlaw.com


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