Shaw v. Reno, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5-4) on June 28, 1993, that electoral districts whose boundaries cannot be adequately explained except as examples of racial gerrymandering, or efforts to segregate voters on the basis of race, can be challenged as potential violations of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) to the U.S. Constitution Key points. In 1991, a group of white voters in North Carolina challenged the state's new congressional district map, which had two "majority-minority" districts. The group claimed that the districts were racial gerrymanders that violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In its 1993 decision, the Supreme Court agreed |bip| wkx| ksm| njw| kif| lxu| bhz| ztm| vkj| gdx| fbl| dzp| bal| qkb| ysm| qzv| msj| ocf| sfp| qfn| gue| bxn| kdc| iki| ysa| nfn| ukj| zwa| ujb| crm| xbg| ftj| zzj| gza| mox| eql| wez| kml| ndg| qmf| lgf| sds| rko| omf| doz| ohd| fql| mkt| ade| gev|