Supreme Court Decision
The Supreme Court reversed the District Court and held that by depriving Kramer and other would-be school election voters of the right to vote based on their lack of property ownership or parenthood, New York had violated the equal protection clause.
The Court's decision was authored by Chief Justice Earl Warren and joined by Associate Justices Hugo L. Black, Jr., William O. Douglas, William J. Brennan, and Thurgood Marshall. Kramer was one of Chief Justice Warren's last opinions for the Court, handed down on June 16, 1969; Warren retired as Chief Justice at the conclusion of the Supreme Court's 1968 Term. The vote in the case wsa 5 to 3, as no replacement for Justice Abe Fortas, who had recently resigned, had yet been confirmed.
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