Richardson v. Ramirez

SCOTUSCase
Litigants=Richardson v. Ramirez
ArgueDate=January 15
ArgueYear=1974
DecideDate=June 24
DecideYear=1974
FullName=Viola N. Richardson v. Abran Ramirez et al.
USVol=418
USPage=24
Citation=94 S. Ct. 2655, 41 L. Ed. 2d 551
Prior=Ramirez v. Brown, 9 Cal.3d 199 (1973). Appeal from the Supreme Court of California
Subsequent=Ramirez v. Brown, 12 Cal. 3d 912 (Cal. 1974)
Holding=Convicted felons may be constitutionally disenfranchised.
SCOTUS=1972-1975
Majority=Rehnquist
JoinMajority=Burger, Stewart, White, Blackmun, Powell
Dissent=Douglas
Dissent2=Marshall
JoinDissent2=Brennan, Douglas
LawsApplied=U.S. Const. amend. XIV

"Richardson v. Ramirez", 418 U.S. 24 (1974), held that convicted felons could be barred from voting without violating the Fourteenth Amendment.

ee also

* List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 418

External links

* [http://laws.findlaw.com/us/418/24.html Full text of the decision courtesy of Findlaw.com]
* [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=433580 Gabriel J. Chin, "Reconstruction, Felon Disenfranchisement and the Right to Vote: Did the Fifteenth Amendment Repeal Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment?", 92 Georgetown Law Journal 259(2004)]