Legal Opinion
City of Memphis, Tennessee v. Tre Hargett, Secretary of State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided October 17, 2013No. M2012-02141-SC-R11-CVPublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GARY R. WADE, C.J., delivered the . opinion of the Court, in which JANICE M. HOLDER, CORNELIA A. CLARK, and SHARON G. LEE, JJ., joined. WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., J., filed a concurring opinion.
*92In May of 2011, the General Assembly enacted a law providing, with certain exceptions, that all citizens who appear in person to vote must present photographic proof of their identity. The statute authorized a variety of acceptable forms of identification, one of which was a valid photographic identification card issued by an entity of the State of Tennessee. Prior to the August 2012 primary…
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