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Legal Citation: 478 U.S. 109 (1986)

Petitioner
Susan J. Davis, et al.

Respondent
Irwin C. Bandemer, et al.

Petitioner's Claim
That Indiana's 1981 legislative redistricting plan did not unconstitutionally discriminate against Democratic legislators in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

Chief Lawyer for Petitioner
William M. Evans

Chief Lawyer for Respondent
Theodore R. Boehm

Justices for the Court
Harry A. Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Jr., Warren E. Burger, Thurgood Marshall, Sandra Day O'Connor, Byron R. White (writing for the Court), William H. Rehnquist

Justices Dissenting
Lewis F. Powell, Jr., John Paul Stevens

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
30 June 1986

Decision
Upheld the state of Indiana's legislative...