Karcher v. Daggett

Karcher v. Daggett
Supreme Court of the United States
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
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 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]