Evans v. Cornman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that state could not deny right to vote in state election to citizens living on federal enclave located within geographical boundaries of state
• holding that state could not deny right to vote in state election to citizens living on federal enclave located within geographical boundaries of state
• upholding the right of persons living on the grounds of the National Institutes of Health, a federal enclave, to vote in Maryland elections
• applying close constitutional scrutiny to Maryland’s denial of voting rights to residents of a National Institutes of Health enclave
• applying heightened scrutiny and finding an equal protection violation where Maryland prohibited individuals residing on a federal reservation or enclave within the state from registering to vote
• rejecting notion of non-residency in state for voting in Maryland elections by those residing in a federal enclave and noting that “the relationship between federal enclaves and the [sjtate in which they are located has changed considerably”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).