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Wright Vs. Rockefeller

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Feb 17, 1964

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  1. Gomillion Vs. Lightfoot US Supreme Court · Nov 14, 1960
  2. Wesberry Vs. Sanders US Supreme Court · Feb 17, 1964
  3. Buchanan Vs. Warley US Supreme Court · Nov 05, 1917
  4. U.S. 52 (1964) U.S. Supreme Court Wright v. Rockefeller
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  5. U.S. 52 (1964) Wright v. Rockefeller
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  6. was either motivated by racial considerations or in fact drew the districts on racial lines. Compare Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  7. conflicting inferences are drawn from evidence offered by the plaintiff, or by the defendant, or by both. Hernandez v. Texas
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  8. these districts on the basis of race and place of origin. Hernandez followed the rule laid down in Norris v. Alabama
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  9. See Wesberry v. Sanders
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  10. E.g., Pierre v. Louisiana
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  11. Smith v. Texas
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  12. Hill v. Texas
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  13. The case is thus, in my opinion, governed by entirely different constitutional considerations, see Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  14. U. S. 339 , than those which I believe Page 376 U. S. 59 should govern in Wesberry v. Sanders
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  15. DOUGLAS, with whom MR. JUSTICE GOLDBERG concurs, dissenting. This case raises a question kin to that in Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  16. Racial segregation that is state-sponsored should be nullified whatever may have been intended. In Johnson v. Virginia
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  17. See NAACP v. Alabama
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  18. U. S. 461 , and cases cited. What the State has done is often conclusive irrespective of motive. Eubanks v. Louisiana
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  19. U. S. 584 , 356 U. S. 587 -588. I had assumed that, since Brown v. Board
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  20. one important public area -- as important as schools, parks, and courtrooms. We should uproot all vestiges of Plessy v. Ferguson
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  21. theory of Plessy v. Ferguson
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  22. a theory that has been used before. A like argument was made in Buchanan v. Warley
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  23. in District of Columbia v. Thompson
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  24. in Watson v. Memphis
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  25. of delayed integration of municipal parks. Indeed, the final argument of John W. Davis for South Carolina in Brown v. Board
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  26. that District B must be represented by a Caucasian, District C by a Jew, District D by a Catholic, and so on. Cf. Gray v. Sanders
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  27. But government has no business designing electoral districts along racial or religious lines. We held in Akins v. Texas
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  28. U. S. 398 , 325 U. S. 403 , and in Brown v. Allen
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  29. In Anderson v. Martin
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  30. of Turks v. Greeks
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  31. racial segregation in legislative districting as well as in voting and in public schools and facilities. E.g., Brown v. Board
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  32. Johnson v. Virginia
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  33. Watson v. City
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  34. Goss v. Board
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  35. Anderson v. Martin
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  36. Cf. Lane v. Wilson
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  37. Hirabayashi v. United
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  38. or other specific harm to individual complainants is irrelevant. I understand the Court's decisions since Brown v. Board
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  39. United States v. United
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  40. U.S. Supreme Court Wright v. Rockefeller
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  41. Compare Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  42. Hernandez v. Texas
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  43. Norris v. Alabama
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  44. In Johnson v. Virginia
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  45. Eubanks v. Louisiana
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  46. Brown v. Board
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  47. of Plessy v. Ferguson
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  48. District of Columbia v. Thompson
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  49. Watson v. Memphis
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  50. Cf. Gray v. Sanders
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