Legal Opinion
Hunt v. Cromartie
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 17, 1999No. 98-85PublishedCited by 1,233 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thomas
In this appeal, we must decide whether appellees were entitled to summary judgment on their claim that North Carolina’s Twelfth Congressional District, as established by the State’s 1997 congressional redistricting plan, constituted an unconstitutional racial gerrymander in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
This is the third time in six years that litigation over North Carolina’s Twelfth Congressional District has come before this Court. The first time around, we held that plaintiffs whose complaint alleged that the State had deliberately segregated voters…
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