# United States v. State of Alabama

> District Court, M.D. Alabama · March 3, 1966 · 252 F. Supp. 95

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9624157

## Case

- **Full name:** UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. the STATE OF ALABAMA and Perry O. Hooper, Judge of Probate of Montgomery County, Alabama, Defendants
- **Court:** District Court, M.D. Alabama
- **Decided:** March 3, 1966
- **Citations:** 252 F. Supp. 95; 1966 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9698
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Gewin
- **Judges:** Rives, Gewin, Johnson
- **Cited by:** 33 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9624157

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding Alabama's poll tax unconstitutional because its purpose and effect was to discriminate on the basis of race

## Opinion text

*105 GEWIN, Circuit Judge.
For the reasons stated in my opinion attached hereto I respectfully dissent.

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