Harman v. Forssenius

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Harman v. Forssenius
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 1-2, 1965 Decided April 27, 1965
Full case name: Harman v. Forssenius Citations: 380 U.S. 538; 85 S. Ct. 1177; 14 L. Ed. 2d 50; 1965 U.S. LEXIS 1347
Holding
Court membership
Chief Justice: Earl Warren Associate Justices: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Tom C. Clark, John Marshall Harlan II, William J. Brennan, Jr., Potter Stewart, Byron White, Arthur Goldberg
Case opinions
Majority by: Warren Joined by: Black, Douglas, Clark, Harlan, Brennan, Stewart, White, Goldberg

Harman v. Forssenius, 380 U.S. 528 (1965) was a 1965 United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that Virginia's law partially eliminating the poll tax violated the 24th Amendment. Virginia had attempted to dodge this anti-poll tax constitutional amendment by allowing for the poll tax to be waived if the would-be voter filed a certificate of residency six months prior to the election. This decision essentially was the death knell for the poll tax in Virginia.

[edit] See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 380