Lane v. Wilson

Lane v. Wilson
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 3, 1939 Decided May 22, 1939
Full case name	Lane v. Wilson et al.
Citations	307 U.S. 268 (more) 59 S. Ct. 872; 83 L. Ed. 1281
Case history
Prior	98 F.2d 980 (10th Cir. 1938); cert. granted, 305 U.S. 591 (1938).
Court membership
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes Associate Justices James C. McReynolds · Pierce Butler Harlan F. Stone · Owen Roberts Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas
Case opinions
Majority	Frankfurter, joined by Hughes, Stone, Roberts, Black, Reed
Dissent	McReynolds, Butler
Douglas took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

Lane v. Wilson, 307 U.S. 268 (1939), was a United States Supreme Court case that found a 12-day one-time voter registration window to be discriminatory for black citizens and repugnant to the Fifteenth Amendment.^[1]