Cooper v. Harris

Cooper v. Harris
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 5, 2016 Decided May 22, 2017
Full case name	Roy Cooper, Governor of North Carolina, et al., appellants vs. David Harris, et al.
Docket no.	15-1262
Citations	581 U.S. ___ (more) 136 S. Ct. 2512; 197 L. Ed. 2d 837
Case history
Prior	Harris v. McCrory, 159 F. Supp. 3d 600 (M.D.N.C. 2016); probable jurisdiction noted, 136 S. Ct. 2512 (2016).
Holding
North Carolina relied too heavily on race in redrawing two Congressional districts after the 2010 Census (M.D.N.C. affirmed)
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan · Neil Gorsuch
Case opinions
Majority	Kagan, joined by Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor
Concurrence	Thomas
Concur/dissent	Alito, joined by Roberts, Kennedy
Gorsuch took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV Voting Rights Act of 1965

Cooper v. Harris, 581 U.S. ___ (2017), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court ruled 5–3 that the North Carolina General Assembly used race too heavily in re-drawing two Congressional districts following the 2010 Census.^[1][2]