Gray v. Sanders

Gray v. Sanders
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 17, 1963 Decided March 18, 1963
Full case name	Gray, Chairman of the Georgia State Democratic Executive Committee, et al. v. Sanders
Citations	372 U.S. 368 (more) 83 S. Ct. 801; 9 L. Ed. 2d 821; 1963 U.S. LEXIS 1944
Case history
Prior	Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Subsequent	203 F. Supp. 158 (N.D. Ga. 1962), judgment vacated and case remanded.
Holding
State elections must adhere to the "one person, one vote" principle.
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Arthur Goldberg
Case opinions
Majority	Douglas, joined by Warren, Black, Clark, Brennan, Stewart, White, Goldberg
Concurrence	Stewart, joined by Clark
Dissent	Harlan
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV
This case overturned a previous ruling or rulings
Colegrove v. Green, 328 U.S. 549 (1946)

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Gray v. Sanders, 372 U.S. 368 (1963), was a Supreme Court of the United States case dealing with equal representation in regard to the American election system and formulated the famous "one person, one vote" standard applied in this case for "counting votes in a Democratic primary election for the nomination of a United States Senator and statewide officers — which was practically equivalent to election."