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Baker v. Carr
Supreme Court of the United States (1962) | 7 L. Ed. 2d 663; 82 S. Ct. 691; 369 U.S. 186; 1962 U.S. LEXIS 1567
TL;DR: Tennessee voters sued over a 60-year-old, malapportioned legislative map that diluted their votes. The Supreme Court held that challenges to legislative apportionment under the Equal Protection Clause are justiciable in federal court and are not non-justiciable "political questions."
Legal Significance: This landmark decision established that claims of legislative malapportionment are justiciable under the Equal Protection Clause, dismantling the political question doctrine as a bar to such suits and paving the way for the "one person, one vote" principle.