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Gomillion Vs. Lightfoot

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Nov 14, 1960

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  10. U.S. 339 (1960) U.S. Supreme Court Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  11. U.S. 339 (1960) Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  12. the Fifteenth Amendment, which forbids a State to deprive any citizen of the right to vote because of his race. Hunter v. Pittsburgh
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  13. redefinition of municipal boundaries. Colegrove v. Green
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  14. power into an absolute is to misconceive the reach and rule of this Court's decisions in the leading case of Hunter v. Pittsburgh
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  15. of the consolidation of his city with another. Related cases upon which the respondents also rely, such as Trenton v. New
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  16. Pawhuska v. Pawhuska
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  17. Oil & Gas Co., 250 U. S. 394 , and Laramie County v. Albany
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  18. preserving to the creditors of the old city some effective recourse for the collection of debts owed them. Shapleigh v. San
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  19. U. S. 266 . For example, in Mobile v. Watson
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  20. relevant Page 364 U. S. 345 limitations imposed by the United States Constitution. The observation in Graham v. Folsom
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  21. Frost & Frost Trucking Co. v. Railroad
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  22. Page 364 U. S. 346 The respondents find another barrier to the trial of this case in Colegrove v. Green
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  23. constitutional litigation. In sum, as Mr. Justice Holmes remarked when dealing with a related situation in Nixon v. Herndon
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  24. despoil colored citizens, and only colored citizens, of their theretofore enjoyed voting rights. That was no Colegrove v. Green
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  25. Acts generally lawful may become unlawful when done to accomplish an unlawful end, United States v. Reading
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  26. Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Foster
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  27. Reversed. MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, while joining the opinion of the Court, adheres to the dissents in Colegrove v. Green
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  28. U. S. 549 , and South v. Peters
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  29. segregation of races of citizens, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Brown v. Board
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  30. U.S. Supreme Court Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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  31. Colegrove v. Green
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  32. of Hunter v. Pittsburgh
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  33. Trenton v. New
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  34. and Laramie County v. Albany
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  35. Shapleigh v. San
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  36. and South v. Peters
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  37. of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Brown v. Board
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