Hunter v. Underwood

Hunter v. Underwood
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 26, 1985 Decided April 16, 1985
Full case name	Hunter, et al. v. Victor Underwood, et al.
Citations	471 U.S. 222 (more) 105 S. Ct. 1916; 85 L. Ed. 2d 222; 1985 U.S. LEXIS 2740; 53 U.S.L.W. 4468
Holding
Even if racially neutral in text, a law enacted with the intent to disenfranchise a particular group of persons is inherently unequal.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinion
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by Burger, Brennan, White, Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor
Powell took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV Art. VIII, § 182 of the Alabama Constitution of 1901

Hunter v. Underwood, 471 U.S. 222 (1985), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously invalidated the criminal disenfranchisement provision of § 182 of the Alabama Constitution as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.^[1]