TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Suzanne Robertson on Jul 5, 2019
The Tennessean studies how Nashville Mayor Ben West's plea that the state needed to undergo reapportionment is still affecting decisions today. That 1959 legal challenge eventually made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it would become a landmark case with repercussions across the country and a precedent cited in last week's decision on political gerrymandering.