Miller v. Johnson

Miller v. Johnson
Miller v. Johnson
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 19, 1995; Decided June 29, 1995
Full case name	Zell Miller v. Davida Johnson
Citations	515 U.S. 900 (more) 115 S. Ct. 2475; 132 L. Ed. 2d 762; 1995 U.S. LEXIS 4462
Case history
Prior	On appeal from U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Together with No. 94-797, Abrams et al. v. Johnson et al., and No. 94-929, United States v. Johnson et al., also on appeal from the same court.
Questions presented
	Is racial gerrymandering of the congressional redistricting process a violation of the Equal Protection Clause?
Holding
	Georgia's congressional redistricting plan violates the Equal Protection Clause.
Court membership
	Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor; Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy; David Souter · Clarence Thomas; Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
Majority	Kennedy, joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, Thomas
Concurrence	O'Connor
Dissent	Stevens
Dissent	Ginsburg, joined by Stevens, Breyer, Souter (except as to Part III-B)
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Miller v. Johnson, 515 U.S. 900 (1995), was a United States Supreme Court case concerning "affirmative gerrymandering/racial gerrymandering", where racial minority-majority electoral districts are created during redistricting to increase minority Congressional representation.

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