Gomillion v. Lightfoot

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Gomillion v. Lightfoot
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 18–19, 1960 Decided November 14, 1960
Full case name	Gomillion et al. v. Lightfoot, Mayor of Tuskegee, et al.
Citations	364 U.S. 339 (more) 81 S. Ct. 125; 5 L. Ed. 2d 110
Case history
Prior	167 F. Supp. 405 (M.D. Ala. 1958); affirmed, 270 F.2d 594 (5th Cir. 1959).
Holding
Electoral district boundaries drawn only to disenfranchise blacks violate the Fifteenth Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · Felix Frankfurter William O. Douglas · Tom C. Clark John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr. Charles E. Whittaker · Potter Stewart
Case opinions
Majority	Frankfurter, joined by Warren, Black, Douglas, Clark, Harlan, Brennan, Stewart
Concurrence	Whittaker
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XV

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Gomillion v. Lightfoot

Gomillion v. Lightfoot, 364 U.S. 339 (1960), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that found an electoral district with boundaries created to disenfranchise African Americans violated the Fifteenth Amendment.^[1]