People v. Mills

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that Florida Supreme Court’s statewide recount order violated equal protection clause because the Court had the power to assure uniformity and did not exercise that power to guarantee equal treatment and fundamental fairness
• holding that the right to vote is a fundamental right under the Constitution
• noting that “the State legislature’s power to select the manner for appointing electors is plenary”
• determining that Florida’s recount procedures conflicted with equal protection without analyzing whether intentional discrimination had been shown
• determining that Florida’s recount procedures conflicted with equal protection without analyzing whether intentional discrimination had been shown
• indicating that having one’s vote counted on equal terms with others in the relevant jurisdiction is the quintessential “right to vote” case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).