CARDONA v. POWER

No. 673.

384 U.S. 672 (1966)

CARDONA v. POWER ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 13, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul O'Dwyer argued the cause for appellant. With him on the brief was W. Bernard Richland.

Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Assistant Attorney General of New York, argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief were Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General, and George C. Mantzoros, Brenda Soloff, Barry J. Lipson and Amy Juviler, Assistant Attorneys General.

Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal, were filed by Leo Pfeffer and Joseph B. Robison for the American Jewish Congress, and by Norman S. Fink for Nathan Straus.


MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case was argued with Katzenbach v. Morgan, ante, p. 641, also decided today. We there sustained the constitutionality of § 4 (e) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and held that, by force of the Supremacy Clause and as provided in § 4 (e), the State of New York's English literacy requirement cannot be enforced against persons who had successfully...

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