South Carolina v. Katzenbach
- South Carolina v. Katzenbach
Infobox SCOTUS case
Litigants = South Carolina v. Katzenbach
ArgueDateA = January 17
ArgueDateB = 18
ArgueYear = 1966
DecideDate = March 7
DecideYear = 1966
FullName = South Carolina v. Nicholas Katzenbach, Attorney General
USVol = 366
USPage = 301
Citation = 86 S. Ct. 803; 15 L. Ed. 2d 769; 1966 U.S. LEXIS 2112
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Holding = The Voting Rights Act was a valid exercise of Congress' power under the enforcement clause of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
SCOTUS = 1965-1967
Majority = Warren
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Concurrence/Dissent = Black
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"South Carolina v. Katzenbach", 383 U.S. 301 (1966) is a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. It rejected a challenge by the state of South Carolina to the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which required that some states submit changes in election districts to the Attorney General of the United States (at the time, Nicholas Katzenbach).
In his opinion for the Court, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that the Voting Rights Act was a valid exercise of Congress' power under the enforcement clause of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Justice Hugo L. Black dissented in part.
The decision represents a rare instance of the Supreme Court exercising its original jurisdiction; the case was filed directly in the Supreme Court by the state of South Carolina, rather than being appealed from a lower court.
External links
* [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=383&page=301 Full text opinion from Findlaw.com]
* [http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0383_0301_ZS.html Text of South Carolina v. Katzenbach (Cornell Law School)]
* [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/powers13th14th15th.htm Discussion of South Carolina v. Katzenbach and other Supreme Court cases interpreting U.S. civil rights laws]
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