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Legal Citation: 369 U.S. 186 (1962)

Appellants
Charles W. Baker, et al.

Appellees
Joe E. Carr, et al.

Appellants' Claim
That electoral districts which were drawn in such a way as to provide inadequate representation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Chief Lawyers for Appellants
Charles S. Rhyme, Z. T. Osborn, Jr.

Chief Lawyer for Appellees
Jack Wilson, Assistant Attorney General of Tennessee

Justices for the Court
Hugo Lafayette Black, William J. Brennan, Jr. (writing for the Court), Tom C. Clark, William O. Douglas, Potter Stewart, Earl Warren

Justices Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter, John Marshall Harlan II (Charles Evans Whittaker did not participate)

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
26 March 1962

Decision
Finding...