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4 Mar 2015, 12:23 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On this day in history, a mere twelve years after the Supreme Court sanctioned racial segregation in public facilities in Plessy v. [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 8:57 pm by Joey Fishkin
 This is a claim articulated most fully (so far) by Justice Scalia in his brief concurrence in Ricci 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 by Myron Orfield
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 by Richard M. Re
Ferguson[,] deeming constitutional state laws requiring racial segregation, and Korematsu v. [read post]
26 Nov 2014, 10:53 am by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
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 by Emily Prifogle
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]
8 Oct 2014, 7:22 am by Patricia McConnico
Justice John Marshall Harlan, to thank him for his courageous dissent in Plessy v. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 7:07 am by Scott Michelman
(Does any Justice want his legacy compared to the Justices who voted for separate but equal in Plessy v. [read post]
29 Sep 2014, 7:44 am by Guest Blogger
  Lest we forget, traditional rational basis review was the standard applied in Plessy v. [read post]
4 Aug 2014, 3:30 pm by Wells Bennett
Sandford (a black man is not a person in the eyes of the law); Plessy v. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 7:23 am by Bruce Ackerman
Maryland, even though William Brennan had the five votes he needed to consign the Civil Rights Cases of 1883 to the same burial ground as Plessy v. [read post]