Landmark Civil Rights Cases Decided by the Supreme Court

A Long Struggle for Freedom > Civil Rights Era (1950–1963)

The NAACP's legal strategy against segregated education culminated in the 1954 Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Civil rights groups accuse conservatives of recasting landmark ...

In a remarkable demonstration of the Supreme Court's power to shape American life, the 1954 unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education ...

In Landmark Victory for Civil Liberties, NCLA Persuades Supreme ...

Washington, DC (June 28, 2024) – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided 6-3 to overturn the 1984 Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council case and with ...

Civil Rights Landmark Supreme Court Cases Flashcards - Quizlet

Dred Scott V Sandford · Plessy V Ferguson · Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas · Korematsu v United States · Craig V Boren · Regents of the University of ...

5 Landmark Cases in U.S. History Spurred by Asian-Pacific Americans

Many of the liberties that U.S. citizens enjoy today can be credited to the people who went to court to challenge unjust laws.

Teaching Supreme Court Cases | Landmark Library - iCivics

Explore resources in this unit · EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch (2015) · Marbury v. Madison (1803) · Brown v. Board of Education (1954) · Clapper v. Amnesty ...

Civil Rights on Trial: How a Case Currently Before the Supreme ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark civil rights Supreme Court decision in Newman v. Piggie Park, which ruled that businesses cannot justify ...

Arguments before the Supreme Court - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Duren alleged that the selection of this jury violated his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to a trial by a jury chosen from a fair cross ...

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) - National Archives

On its way to the Supreme Court, the Dred Scott case grew in scope and significance as slavery became the single most explosive issue in ...

topic: race discrimination - LII: Supreme Court Collection

Scott v. Sandford 60 US 393 (1856) Slaughterhouse Cases 83 US 36 (1872) Strauder v. West Virginia 100 US 303 (1879) Civil Rights Cases 109 US 3

Community Living and Olmstead | HHS.gov

The U.S. Supreme Court's 1999 landmark decision in Olmstead v. L.C. ... civil rights laws. [More on Olmstead]. Celebrating the 25th ...

One of his attorneys was James A. Guy, an African American lawyer who moved to Kansas from Ohio. In 1906, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled for ...

Civil Liberties—Landmark Supreme Court Cases

The first one is done for you. Brief Description. Issues. Decision. FIRST AMENDMENT-FREEDOM OF SPEECH. 1919 Schenck v US.

Threats to the Rule of Law Posed by the Supreme Court's 2023 Term

Rolling back abortion rights and federal supremacy ... In the 2022 landmark case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, the Supreme Court majority ...

9 Supreme Court Cases That Shaped LGBTQ Rights in America | TIME

Romer v. Evans (1996). In this decision, the Supreme Court ruled that laws couldn't single out LGBTQ people to take away their rights.

The Major Supreme Court Decisions in 2024 - The New York Times

Is there a major precedent involved? As in Murthy v. Missouri, the case implicated the 1963 decision Bantam Books v. Sullivan, in which the ...

Hernandez v. Texas - The Bullock Texas State History Museum

In 1954, the United States Supreme Court extended constitutional rights to Mexican Americans in the landmark civil rights case Hernandez v. Texas.

Supreme Court strikes down Chevron, curtailing power of federal ...

The justices took up their appeals, agreeing to address only the Chevron question in Relentless v. Department of Commerce and Loper Bright ...

Race Discrimination: U.S. Supreme Court Cases - FindLaw

Board of Education (1954) In this landmark case, the Court prohibited racial segregation of public schools. Brown v. Board of Education II (1955) This decision ...

Civil Rights Landmark Supreme Court Cases | CourseNotes

Held that the presumption of disadvantage based on race alone, and consequent allocation of favored treatment, is unconstitutional under the due process clause ...