Reno+v+Shaw

Background: This case involved redistricting in North Carolina after the 1990 census. North Carolina submitted the map to the DoJ with one majority-minority black district. The Department of Justice said that the state could have drawn another majority-minority district to increase representation of black voters. The state revised its map, but the new plan included a single district that was 160 miles long, winding through the state to connect various areas with the only thing having in common was the high presentage of African American population.

Dates: Argued April 20, 1993 Decided June 28, 1993

Outcome: 5-4 in favor of Shaw

Court: William Rehnquist, 1993

Aftermath: Future cases such as Miller v. Johnson in Georgia ended the same way with a 5-4 vote and played a major role in the 2000 redistricting and does to this day in the 2010 redistricting

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