United States v. Reese

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United States v. Reese
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 13 – 14, 1875
Decided March 27, 1876
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Citations: 92 U.S. 214
Holding
Court membership
Chief Justice: Morrison Waite
Associate Justices: Nathan Clifford, Noah Haynes Swayne, Samuel Freeman Miller, David Davis, Stephen Johnson Field, William Strong, Joseph Philo Bradley, Ward Hunt
Case opinions
Majority by: Waite
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XV

United States v. Reese was an 1876 voting rights case in which the United States Supreme Court upheld such practices as the poll tax, the literacy test, and the grandfather clause.