Nixon v. Condon

Nixon v. Condon
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 7, 1932 Reargued March 15, 1932 Decided May 2, 1932
Full case name	L.A. Nixon v. James Condon and another
Citations	286 U.S. 73 (more) 52 S.Ct. 484; 88 A.L.R. 458; 76 L. Ed. 984; 1932 U.S. LEXIS 597
Case history
Prior	34 F.2d 464 (W.D. Tex. 1929), aff'd, 49 F.2d 1012 (5th Cir. 1931), cert. granted, 284 U.S. 601 (1931).
Court membership
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes Associate Justices Willis Van Devanter · James C. McReynolds Louis Brandeis · George Sutherland Pierce Butler · Harlan F. Stone Owen Roberts · Benjamin N. Cardozo
Case opinions
Majority	Cardozo, joined by Hughes, Brandeis, Stone, Roberts
Dissent	McReynolds, joined by Van Devanter, Sutherland, Butler
Laws applied
U.S. Const., amend. XIV, Tex. Civ. St. art. 3107

Nixon v. Condon, 286 U.S. 73 (1932), was a voting rights case decided by the United States Supreme Court, which found the all-white Democratic Party primary in Texas unconstitutional. This was one of four cases brought to challenge the Texas all-white Democratic Party primary. All challenges were supported by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).^[1] With Smith v. Allwright (1944) the Supreme Court decisively prohibited the white primary.