Supreme Court of the United States, 1964

Swann v. Adams

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided October 12, 1964 · Sims, Forty-Fourth, Colorado

378 U.S. 553; 84 S. Ct. 1904; 12 L. Ed. 2d 1033; 1964 U.S. LEXIS 839 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Wm. Reece Smith, Jr. for appellant., Richard W. Ervin, Attorney General of Florida, C. Graham Carothers, Special Assistant Attorney General, and Edward S. Jaffry and Joseph C. Jacobs, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellees.

Cases that cite this one

13 later published cases cite this decision.

Toombs v. Fortson (United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia 1966)
Wells v. Rockefeller (District Court, S.D. New York 1967)
In re Apportionment Law, Etc. (Fla. 1982)
Palm Beach County v. Green (Fla. 1965)
In re Senate Joint Resolution of Legislative Apportionment 1176 (Fla. 2012)
In re Constitutionality of Resolution 1987 (Fla. 2002)
Skolnick v. Mayor And City Council Of Chicago (7th Cir. 1969)
Skolnick v. Mayor of Chicago (7th Cir. 1969)
Jordan v. Green (Fla. 1965)
Honsey v. Donovan (D. Minn. 1964)
Swann v. Adams (Supreme Court of the United States 1967)
Swann v. Adams (Supreme Court of the United States 1966)
Vann v. Baggett (Supreme Court of the United States 1964)

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Opinion

Per Curiam.

The judgment below is reversed. Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U. S. 533. The case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with the views stated in our opinions in Reynolds v. Sims and in the other cases relating to state legislative apportionment decided along with Reynolds.

Mr. Justice Clark would reverse on the grounds stated in his opinion in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U. S. 533, 587. Mr. Justice Stewart would remand for further proceedings consistent with the views expressed in his dissenting opinion in Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado, 377 U. S. 713, 744. Mr. Justice Harlan dissents for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U. S. 533, 589.

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