Legal Opinion
Harrison v. Laveen
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided July 15, 1948No. 5065PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
UDALL, Justice.
The right of American Indians to vote in Arizona elections for state and federal officers has after two decades again arisen, like Banquo’s ghost, to challenge us.
Frank Harrison and Harry Austin, members of the Mohave-Apache Indian Tribe, residing on the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation, which lies wholly within the Scottsdale precinct of Maricopa County, Arizona, sought to register preparatory to exercising their claimed right of franchise. When Roger G. Laveen, county recorder of said county, refused to permit them to do so, the Indians as plaintiffs brought this action in…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- United States v. WallerSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
- Porter v. HallArizona Supreme Court · 1928
- Begay v. SawtelleArizona Supreme Court · 1939
- Swift v. LeachNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1920
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3Cited by42 opinions
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- Adams v. LondereeWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1954
- Taylor v. Graham County Chamber of CommerceCourt of Appeals of Arizona · 2001
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