William J. Brennan Signs Landmark Baker v. Carr Typescript

DS 1962 of the landmark Baker v. Carr case which reached the Supreme Court signed by Justice William J. Brennan at the conclusion. 8.25" x 11". A few pencil notations in an unknown hand, else fine.

Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that redistricting qualifies as a justiciable question under the Fourteenth Amendment, thus enabling federal courts to hear Fourteenth Amendment-based redistricting cases. In a 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Tennessee was in violation of Constitutional law. Justice Brennan delivered the opinion of the court. 

William Joseph Brennan Jr. (1906 – 1997) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1956 to 1990.

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