Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued December 7, 1988
Decided March 22, 1989

Full case name

Board of Estimate of City of New York, et al. v. Morris, et al.

Citations

109 S.Ct. 1433

Holding

The Board of Estimate's structure is inconsistent with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because, although the boroughs have widely disparate populations, each has equal representation on the board.

Court membership

Chief Justice William Rehnquist

Associate Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy

Case opinions

Majority

White, joined by Rehnquist, Marshall, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy

Concurrence

Brennan, joined by Stevens

Concurrence

Blackmun

Laws applied

U.S. Const. amend XIV

This case overturned a previous ruling or rulings

Colegrove v. Green (1946)

Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris, 489 U.S. 688 (1989), was a case argued before the United States Supreme Court regarding the structure of the New York City Board of Estimate.

Under the charter of the City of Greater New York established in 1898, the Board of Estimate was responsible for budget and land-use decisions for the city. It was composed of eight ex officio members: the Mayor of New York City, the New York City Comptroller and the President of the New York City Council, each of whom was elected citywide and had two votes, and the five Borough presidents, each having one vote.^[1]

The court unanimously declared the New York City Board of Estimate unconstitutional on the grounds that the city's most populous borough (Brooklyn) had no greater effective representation on the board than the city's least populous borough (Staten Island), in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause pursuant to the Court's 1964 "one man, one vote" decision (Reynolds v. Sims).^[2] The Board was disestablished.

The case was argued on December 7, 1988, and decided on March 22, 1989. Justice Byron White delivered the Court's opinion.

References

↑ Being Borough President Archived April 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine., Gotham Gazette, July 18, 2005
↑ Cornell Law School Supreme Court Collection: Board of Estimate of City of New York v. Morris, accessed June 12, 2006.

External links

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0489_0688_ZS.html

United States Fourteenth Amendment case law

Citizenship Clause

Slaughter-House Cases (1873) Elk v. Wilkins (1884) United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) Perez v. Brownell (1958) Saenz v. Roe (1964) Afroyim v. Rusk (1967) Rogers v. Bellei (1971)

Due Process Clause

Economic substantive due process	Mugler v. Kansas (1887) Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897) Lochner v. New York (1905) Coppage v. Kansas (1915) Adams v. Tanner (1917) Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923)

Right to privacy	Meyer v. Nebraska (1923) Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925) Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) Doe v. Bolton (1973) Roe v. Wade (1973) Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989) Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) Lawrence v. Texas (2003) Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt (2016)

Right to abortion	United States v. Vuitch (1971) Doe v. Bolton (1973) Roe v. Wade (1973) H. L. v. Matheson (1981) City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983) Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989) Hodgson v. Minnesota (1990) Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of New England (2006) Gonzales v. Carhart (2007) Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt (2016)

Civil rights liability under Section 1983	Monroe v. Pape (1961) McNeese v. Board of Educ. (1963) Pierson v. Ray (1967) Jenkins v. McKeithen (1969) Scheuer v. Rhodes (1974) Wood v. Strickland (1975) O'Connor v. Donaldson (1975) Paul v. Davis (1976) Imbler v. Pachtman (1976) Monell v. Department of Social Services of the City of New York (1978) Procunier v. Navarette (1978) Owen v. City of Independence (1980) Harlow v. Fitzgerald (1982) Felder v. Casey (1988) Will v. Michigan Department of State Police (1989) Gonzaga University v. Doe (2002) Inyo County v. Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Community (2003) City of Rancho Palos Verdes v. Abrams (2005) Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee (2009) Ashcroft v. Iqbal (2009) Los Angeles County v. Humphries (2010) Connick v. Thompson (2011)

Other	Holden v. Hardy (1898) Muller v. Oregon (1908) Buck v. Bell (1927) Powell v. Alabama (1932) West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937) NAACP v. Alabama (1958) Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) Loving v. Virginia (1967) Epperson v. Arkansas (1968) In re Winship (1971) Edwards v. Aguillard (1987) Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. (2009) Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)

Equal Protection Clause

United States v. Cruikshank (1876)
Pace v. Alabama (1883)
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Buchanan v. Warley (1917)
Lum v. Rice (1927)
Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)
Perez v. Sharp (1948)
Goesaert v. Cleary (1948)
Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
Sipuel v. Board of Regents of Univ. of Okla. (1948)
Sweatt v. Painter (1950)
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
Hernandez v. Texas (1954)
Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (1964)
Katzenbach v. Morgan (1966)
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971)
Guey Heung Lee v. Johnson (1971)
Reed v. Reed (1971)
Frontiero v. Richardson (1973)
Craig v. Boren (1976)
Milliken v. Bradley (1974)
Romer v. Evans (1996)
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007)
Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)

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