Hunter v. Underwood
| Hunter v. Underwood | |
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| Argued February 26, 1985 Decided April 16, 1985 | |
| Full case name | Hunter, et al. v. Victor Underwood, et al. |
| Citations | 471 U.S. 222 (more) 105 S. Ct. 1916; 85 L. Ed. 2d 222; 1985 U.S. LEXIS 2740; 53 U.S.L.W. 4468 |
| Holding | |
| Even if racially neutral in text, a law enacted with the intent to disenfranchise a particular group of persons is inherently unequal. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinion | |
| Majority | Rehnquist, joined by Burger, Brennan, White, Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor |
| Powell took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. | |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amend. XIV Art. VIII, § 182 of the Alabama Constitution of 1901 | |
Hunter v. Underwood, 471 U.S. 222 (1985), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously invalidated the criminal disenfranchisement provision of § 182 of the Alabama Constitution as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.