Karcher v. Daggett | |
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Argued March 2, 1983 Decided June 22, 1983 | |
Full case name | Karcher, Speaker, New Jersey Assembly, et al. v. Daggett, et al. |
Citations | 462 U.S. 725 (more) 103 S. Ct. 2653; 77 L. Ed. 2d 133; 1983 U.S. LEXIS 75; 51 U.S.L.W. 4853 |
Case history | |
Prior | Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey |
Holding | |
New Jersey's plan may not be regarded per se as the product of a good faith effort to achieve population equality merely because the maximum population deviation among districts is smaller than the predictable undercount in available census data. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Brennan, joined by Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor |
Concurrence | Stevens |
Dissent | White, joined by Burger, Powell, Rehnquist |
Dissent | Powell |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. Art. 1 § 2 |
Karcher v. Daggett, 462 U.S. 725 (1983), was a United States Supreme Court case involving the legality of redistricting, and possibly gerrymandering, in the state of New Jersey.[1][2][3]