Tancil v. Woolls Virginia State Board of Elections v. Hamm
| Decision Date | 26 October 1964 |
| Docket Number | No. 412,No. 386,386,412 |
| Parties | Gladys Quander TANCIL et al. v. William P. WOOLLS et al., Judges. VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS et al. v. E. Leslie HAMM et al |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Robert Y. Button, Atty. Gen. of Virginia, R. D. McIlwaine III, Asst. Atty. Gen., William J. Hassan and Ralph G. Louk, for Hamm and others.
Allison W. Brown, Jr., for appellants Tancil and others and appellees Virginia Bd. of Elections and others.
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Holloway v. City of Va. Beach
...of race.); Hamm v. Virginia State Board , 230 F.Supp. 156 (E.D. Va. 1964) (three-judge court), aff'd sub nom. Tancil v. Woolls , 379 U.S. 19, 85 S.Ct. 157, 13 L.Ed.2d 91 (1964) (holding that Virginia laws unconstitutionally required the separation of names by race on voter registration, pol......
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Jackson v. Godwin
...Thus it is that racial classifications have been held invalid in a variety of contexts. See, e. g., Tancil v. Woolls Virginia Board of Elections v. Hamm, 319 U.S. 19, 85 S.Ct. 157 (designation of race in voting and property records); Anderson v. Martin, 375 U.S. 399 84 S.Ct. 454, 11 L.Ed.2d......
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Smith v. Board of Education of Morrilton Sch. Dist. No. 32
...While the Supreme Court has recognized that race in certain contexts may have proper and valid significance, Tancil v. Woolls, 379 U.S. 19, 85 S.Ct. 157, 13 L.Ed.2d 91 (1964), affirming per curiam Hamm v. Virginia State Bd. of Elections, 230 F.Supp. 156, 158 (E.D.Va.1964); McLaughlin v. Sta......
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Palmer v. Thompson
...to make it invalid." In Hamm v. Virginia State Board of Elections, E.D.Va.1964, 230 F.Supp. 156, aff'd Tancil v. Woolls, 379 U.S. 19, 85 S.Ct. 157, 13 L.Ed.2d 91 (1964), the Virginia law under attack required that lists of voters and property tax assessments be kept separately for each race......
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Reconnecting doctrine and purpose: a comprehensive approach to strict scrutiny after Adarand and Shaw.
...utilize the example in which there are only two racial groups in the relevant jurisdiction, "black" and "white." (122) Tancil v. Woolls, 379 U.S. 19 (1964) (per curiam), aff'g Hamm v. Virginia State Bd. of Elections, 230 F. Supp. 156 (E.D. Va. (123) Hamm, 230 F. Supp. at 158. (124) Id. (125......
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Principles, practices, and social movements.
...the power of the State behind a racial classification that induces racial prejudice at the polls"). (34) For example, in Tancil v. Woolls, 379 U.S. 19 (1964), the Supreme Court affirmed per curiam the lower court decision from Hamm v. Virginia State Board of Elections, 230 F. Supp. 156, 158......