Colegrove v. Green

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Colegrove v. Green is a 1946 U.S. Supreme Court decision known for holding that issues of legislative apportionment and malapportionment were nonjusticiable political questions, delaying judicial intervention in redistricting disputes.

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instanceOf United States Supreme Court case
election law case
federal court case
redistricting case
hasCategory United States Supreme Court cases
surface form: United States Supreme Court cases on justiciability

United States Supreme Court cases on legislative apportionment
hasCitation 328 U.S. 549
hasConcurrenceFrom Hugo L. Black
surface form: Hugo Black
hasConstitutionalProvisionInvolved Article I of the United States Constitution
Elections Clause
Guarantee Clause
hasContext challenge to Illinois congressional districts
hasCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
hasCourt Supreme Court of the United States
hasDecisionDate June 10, 1946
hasDissentFrom Frank Murphy
Hugo L. Black
surface form: Hugo Black

William O. Douglas
hasEffect delayed judicial intervention in redistricting disputes
limited federal judicial review of legislative apportionment prior to the 1960s
hasHolding claims of legislative apportionment and malapportionment present nonjusticiable political questions
federal courts lack authority to intervene in certain legislative apportionment disputes
hasJurisdiction federal question jurisdiction
hasKeyPhrase courts ought not to enter this political thicket
hasLaterTreatment limited by subsequent reapportionment cases
partially overruled by Baker v. Carr
hasLegalIssue justiciability
political question doctrine
hasLocation Illinois
hasOpinionAuthor Felix Frankfurter
hasOpinionType plurality opinion
hasOutcome relief denied to plaintiffs challenging congressional districting
hasPetitioner Colegrove
hasPrecedentialStatus precedent on political question doctrine
hasReporter United States Reports
hasRespondent Green
hasSubjectMatter legislative apportionment
malapportionment
redistricting
hasTimePeriod post-New Deal era
hasVoteSplit 4-3 decision
hasYear 1946
isRelatedAreaOfLaw constitutional law
election law
federal courts
isRelatedCase Baker v. Carr
Reynolds v. Sims decision
surface form: Reynolds v. Sims

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