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Gaffney v. Cummings, 412 U.S. 735 (1973), is a Supreme Court decision upholding statewide legislative apportionment plans for Connecticut. The Court admitted that these plans entailed "substantial inequalities in the population of the representative districts." It observed that "the States have made virtually no attempt to justify their failure 'to construct districts ... as nearly of equal population as is practicable." It was a Fourteenth Amendment case. At issue was whether the election districts had been gerrymandered in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

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rdfs:label	Gaffney v. Cummings (en)
rdfs:comment	Gaffney v. Cummings, 412 U.S. 735 (1973), is a Supreme Court decision upholding statewide legislative apportionment plans for Connecticut. The Court admitted that these plans entailed "substantial inequalities in the population of the representative districts." It observed that "the States have made virtually no attempt to justify their failure 'to construct districts ... as nearly of equal population as is practicable." It was a Fourteenth Amendment case. At issue was whether the election districts had been gerrymandered in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. (en)
foaf:name	(en) J. Brian Gaffney v. Theodore R. Cummings, et al (en)
dcterms:subject	1973 in United States case law United States Supreme Court cases Legal history of Connecticut Incorporation case law United States electoral redistricting case law United States Supreme Court cases of the Burger Court
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Rucho v. Common Cause 1973 in United States case law United States Supreme Court cases Legal history of Connecticut Incorporation case law Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution United States electoral redistricting case law United States Supreme Court cases of the Burger Court L. Ed. 2d Supreme Court of the United States D. Conn. First-past-the-post voting F. Supp.
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/412/735/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/341/139/1456826/ https://www.oyez.org/cases/1972/71-1476 http://cdn.loc.gov/service/ll/usrep/usrep412/usrep412735/usrep412735.pdf
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Prior	Judgment for Respondents, Cummings v. Meskill, 341 F. Supp. 139 , reversed (en)
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fullname	J. Brian Gaffney v. Theodore R. Cummings, et al (en)
Holding	A "political fairness principle" that achieves a rough approximation of the state-wide political strengths of the two major parties does not violate the Equal Protection Clause. (en) Minor deviations from mathematical equality among state legislative districts do not make out a prima facie case of invidious discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and in this case, where the House districts deviated on the average by 1.9% and the maximum deviation was 7.83%, a prima facie case was not made out. (en)
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Litigants	Gaffney v. Cummings (en)
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has abstract	Gaffney v. Cummings, 412 U.S. 735 (1973), is a Supreme Court decision upholding statewide legislative apportionment plans for Connecticut. The Court admitted that these plans entailed "substantial inequalities in the population of the representative districts." It observed that "the States have made virtually no attempt to justify their failure 'to construct districts ... as nearly of equal population as is practicable." It was a Fourteenth Amendment case. At issue was whether the election districts had been gerrymandered in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. (en)
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is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	Gaffney v Cummings March 1973 Baker v. Carr Wisconsin v. City of New York 412 U.S. 735 Gerrymandering in the United States Redistricting in the United States
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