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26 May 2015, 3:00 am
Plessy’s place in the list of worst Supreme Court decisions Looking back at the Brown v. [read post]
25 May 2015, 2:00 am
Recent Historical Stories on Constitution Daily Looking back at a key Supreme Court decision about gay rights The real-life namesake of Martin Sheen’s ‘West Wing’ president Plessy’s place in the list of worst Supreme Court decisions Looking back at the Brown v. [read post]
23 May 2015, 2:45 am
Recent Historical Stories on Constitution Daily Looking back at a key Supreme Court decision about gay rights The real-life namesake of Martin Sheen’s ‘West Wing’ president Plessy’s place in the list of worst Supreme Court decisions Looking back at the Brown v. [read post]
22 May 2015, 5:29 am
Plessy v. [read post]
21 May 2015, 2:55 am
Plessy’s place in the list of worst Supreme Court decisions Looking back at the Brown v. [read post]
13 May 2015, 1:13 pm
Although it was supplemental to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, northern states had passed personal liberty laws that had generally weakened enforcement of the 1793 Act and caused southern slaveowners to press for stronger federal protection of slavery (Justice Story’s opinion in Prigg v. [read post]
13 May 2015, 6:30 am
Recent United States Supreme Court decisions, such as Shelley v. [read post]
5 May 2015, 6:00 am
And our bitterest critique seems to come, as noted before, in Chapter Eight, where pretty much every major decision of the Court -- Bradwell, The Civil Rights Cases, Plessy, Giles, Berea College, Buck v. [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 7:36 am
United States v. [read post]
10 Mar 2015, 11:52 am
The reason for this is because the Sipuel decision is premised on the separate but equal doctrine established in Plessy v. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 12:23 am
On this day in history, a mere twelve years after the Supreme Court sanctioned racial segregation in public facilities in Plessy v. [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 7:00 am
Harlan was also the only dissenter in Plessy v. [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 8:57 pm
This is a claim articulated most fully (so far) by Justice Scalia in his brief concurrence in Ricci v. [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 8:51 am
The lower court held for the plaintiffs, under the “effects test” of Calder v. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 6:28 pm
It had its legal beginning in 1896, when the Supreme Court rendered a decision known as the Plessy v. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 9:33 am
The statement by Justice Harlan that “our Constitution is colorblind” was most certainly justified in the context of his dissent in Plessy v. [read post]
18 Dec 2014, 11:17 pm
Ferguson[,] deeming constitutional state laws requiring racial segregation, and Korematsu v. [read post]
26 Nov 2014, 10:53 am
The missing documents -- some of which have never resurfaced -- included a 1952 letter from future Chief Justice William Rehnquist, then a law clerk for Justice Robert Jackson, allegedly expressing disappointment with the Court's decision to overturn Plessy v. [read post]
23 Nov 2014, 12:30 am
He remained close to the other Harlans, one of whom was Justice John Marshall Harlan — the “great dissenter” of the Supreme Court — who argued on behalf of equal rights under the law in Plessy v. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 7:27 pm
”Plessy v. [read post]
