United States v. Reese
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| United States v. Reese | ||||||||||
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| Supreme Court of the United States | ||||||||||
| Argued January 13 – 14, 1875 Decided March 27, 1876 |
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| 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 |
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| Majority by: Waite |
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| 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.

