Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. |
Race, Racism and Crime Statistics |
122 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1044 (April, 1974) |
[Can] American justice, American liberty, American civilization, American law, and American Christianity . be made to include and protect alike and forever all American citizens in the rights which have been guaranteed to them by the organic and fundamental laws of the land? Almost a century ago the distinguished abolitionist and statesman; Search Snippet: ...University of Pennsylvania Law Review April, 1974 Book Review RACE, RACISM AND AMERICAN LAW By Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Boston: Little... |
1974 |
Captain Jack F. Lane, Jr., Civil Law Division, TJAGSA |
Claudia Rankine's Citizen: Documenting and Protesting America's Halting March Toward Racial Justice and Equality |
1973-MAY Army Lawyer 13 (May, 1973) |
In assessing the nature and extent of racial discrimination in the military's criminal justice system, the Department of Defense Task Force on the Administration of Military Justice in the Armed Forces made several findings of racial bias in areas of military personnel administration. Specifically, the Task Force found: The military personnel; Search Snippet: ...of the Army Pamphlet 27-50-5 CLASSIFICATION, PROMOTION AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Captain Jack F. Lane, Jr. Civil Law Division, TJAGSA... |
1973 |
J. David Heaney |
Constitutional Law -- Equal Protection -- Ninth Circuit Holds That High School Racial Balancing Plan Does Not Violate the Equal Proctection Clause. -- Parents Involved in Community Schools V. Seattle School District, No. I, 426 F.3d 1162 (9th Cir. 2005) ( |
51 Texas Law Review 1011 (May, 1973) |
When plaintiff, editor of North Carolina Central University's campus newspaper, published antiwhite materials and threatened not to publish white advertising or allow whites to serve on the staff, the university president cut off funds for the paper. Plaintiff sued to compel the restoration of the newspaper's funding, claiming that the... |
1973 |
Captain David E. Graham, Instructor, International and Comparative Law Division, TJAGSA |
Racial Constructions: the Legal Regulation of Miscegenation in Alabama, 1890-1934 |
1973-DEC Army Lawyer 14 (December, 1973) |
The Judge Advocate General has tasked TJAGSA to prepare a Handbook on Race Relations. The proposed handbook will take the form of case studies dealing with various pertinent topics. The study that follows is the first of several that will be sent to the field for preview. You are invited to submit comments or suggestions on the format and the... |
1973 |
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2. Section 1981-Racial Harassment and Discrimination in the Workplace |
86 Harvard Law Review 70 (November, 1972) |
In Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis, the Supreme Court held that the grant of a state liquor license to a private club which refuses to serve black guests, and the regulation of the club by the state liquor control board consequent upon that grant, do not constitute sufficient state involvement to invoke the equal protection clause of the fourteenth; Search Snippet: ...Court, 1971 Term II. Constitutional Law A. Civil Rights 2. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY PRIVATE CLUBS HOLDING STATE LIQUOR LICENSES. Copyright ©... |
1972 |
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Affirmative Action and Racial Reaction |
85 Harvard Law Review 870 (February, 1972) |
In 1958 the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) approved an urban renewal plan for the East Poplar area of North Philadelphia under which a portion of the area would be redeveloped primarily with single family owner-occupied homes. By 1966 this original concept had been frustrated for various reasons, and HUD informally; Search Snippet: ...HAS AFFIRMATIVE DUTY TO CONSIDER LOW INCOME HOUSING'S IMPACT UPON RACIAL CONCENTRATION Shannon v. HUD, 436 F.2d 809 (3d Cir... |
1972 |
Richard Young |
Competing Conceptions of "Racial Discrimination": a Response to Cooper and Graglia |
25 Stanford Law Review 84 (November, 1972) |
The goals of the petitioners in Brown v. Board of Education and its progeny were to halt official discrimination and to insure that racial minorities received equal treatment. In recent years, however, it has been argued increasingly that an absolute rule mandating equal treatment will not lead to racial equality in fact. The failure of equal... |
1972 |
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The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: Implications for Challenging Racial Hierarchy |
72 Columbia Law Review 1215 (November, 1972) |
As the effort to eradicate racial discrimination shifted focus from the invalidation of statutorily-imposed separation to more subtle forms of governmental denial of equal protection, it was inevitable that one of the remaining ostensible mechanisms of governmental support of segregationfederal tax benefits conferred on private institutions in the; Search Snippet: ...Law Review November, 1972 Note THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Copyright © 1972 Directors of The Columbia Law Review Association... |
1972 |
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Dan the Xenophobe Rides the A-train, or the Modern, Unconscious Racist in "Enlightened America" |
84 Harvard Law Review 746 (January, 1971) |
During late 1967 William Gray, a black man, unsuccessfully attempted to rent an apartment from Serruto Builders. In December the Montclair Fair Housing Commission, to whom he had complained, informed him that Serruto had available apartments. Gray again spoke to Laurence, the superintendent, who said that despite a vacancy sign in plain view no; Search Snippet: ...DAMAGES MENTAL DISTRESS DAMAGES RECOVERABLE FOR MENTAL DISTRESS RESULTING FROM RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING RENTAL. GRAY v. SERRUTO BUILDERS, INC., 110... |
1971 |
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Disenfranchisement as Punishment: Reflections on the Racial Uses of Infamia |
80 Yale Law Journal 516 (January, 1971) |
In the spring of 1968, the Supreme Court revived Section 1 of the 1866 Civil Rights Act from a century of quiescence: All citizens of the United States shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property. Jones v. Alfred H; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL Yale Law Journal January, 1971 Note DISCRIMINATORY HOUSING MARKETS, RACIAL UNCONSCIONABILITY, AND SECTION 1988: THE CONTRACT BUYERS LEAGUE CASE Copyright... |
1971 |
M. Laughlin McDonald |
In Search of Racial Justice: the Role of the Prosecutor |
23 Stanford Law Review 367 (January, 1971) |
Minimizing Racism in Jury Trials. Edited by Ann Fagan Ginger. Box 673, Berkeley, Calif.: The National Lawyers Guild. 1969. xxv + 247 pages. $10.00. The sixth amendment to the Constitution, made applicable to the states in Duncan v. Louisiana, provides that the accused in all criminal prosecutions shall have the right to a trial by an impartial; Search Snippet: ...Review January, 1971 Book Reviewed IN PURSUIT OF THE LEAST- RACIST JUROR M. Laughlin McDonald [FNa1] Copyright © 1970-1972 by the... |
1971 |
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4. Death Penalty-Racial Discrimination |
84 Harvard Law Review 54 (November, 1970) |
In 1911, United States Senator Augustus Bacon bequeathed to the city of Macon, Georgia, a 100-acre tract of land to be held in trust as a park for the exclusive use of the city's white citizens. More than fifty years later, the Supreme Court held in Evans v. Newton (Evans I) that the park could not be operated as a segregated facility. While the; Search Snippet: ...Term I. Constitutional Law A. Equal Protection 3. REVERSION OF RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY TRUSTS Copyright (c) 1970 by the Harvard Law Review... |
1970 |
Joe Tom Easley |
Charter Schools: Racial-balancing Provisions and Parents Involved |
48 Texas Law Review 827 (March, 1970) |
In 1914 the donor established a college scholarship fund specifically limited to white males. Scholarship applications were screened by a committee composed of two public officials and the president of the trustee bank. The trustee sought instructions regarding the validity of the racial restriction. Restriction removal ordered. When changed; Search Snippet: ...CHARITABLE TRUSTS Doctrine of Cy Pres-Deviation Used to Eliminate Racial Restriction in a Scholarship Trust Fund. Bank of Delaware v... |
1970 |
Norman D. Peel, Garth E. Pickett, Stephen T. Buehl |
Racial Discrimination in the Administration of the Death Penalty: the Experience of the United States Armed Forces (1984-2005) |
23 Stanford Law Review 63 (November, 1970) |
During the past year, two federal district courts and a state appellate court have examined the problem of racial discrimination in the selection of sites for public housing, and each has found that the selections in question were made in a discriminatory manner. The racial integration of public housing has been as slow a process as that of private; Search Snippet: ...123741 STANFORD LAW REVIEW Stanford Law Review November, 1970 Note RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN PUBLIC HOUSING SITE SELECTION [FNa1] Norman D. Peel... |
1970 |
J. Donald Bowen |
Constitutional Law |
47 Texas Law Review 707 (March, 1969) |
Plaintiffs, Negro students, brought a class action suit to enjoin defendant school board from modernizing existing schools and building new ones in predominantly Negro residential areas because this action, it was argued, would promote and perpetuate de facto segregation. Plaintiffs asserted that de facto segregation would deny them the equal; Search Snippet: ...Plan to all Students is not Obligated to Consider Residential Racial Patterns as a Relevant Factor in Selection of School Sites... |
1969 |
William B. Gould |
Labor Law |
118 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 40 (November, 1969) |
By enacting title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Congress acknowledged the fact that a substantial number of unions and employers were dealing unfairly with minority group workers. Hearings conducted by Senator Edward M. Kennedy highlighted the failure of many who do business with the Government to comply with prohibitions of racial; Search Snippet: ...Law Review November, 1969 Article LABOR ARBITRATION OF GRIEVANCES INVOLVING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION William B. Gould [FNd1] Copyright (c) 1969 by University... |
1969 |
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Mandatory Sentencing and Racial Disparity: Assessing the Role of Prosecutors and the Effects of Booker |
69 Columbia Law Review 1478 (December, 1969) |
The racially restricted charitable trust has come under increasing attack as representing nothing more than the legally assisted institutionalization of private racial discrimination. Although states may no longer maintain the property of charitable trusts on a discriminatory basis, the possibility of honoring the restriction by ordering reversion... |
1969 |
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Civil Rights and Regulations |
81 Harvard Law Review 690 (January 1, 1968) |
Ethridge v. Rhodes, 268 F. Supp. 83 (S.D. Ohio 1967). Ohio officials were preparing to enter into four contracts for construction work at Ohio State University. Three of these were in response to bids containing an assurance of nondiscriminatory hiring, as required by an Ohio executive order, although the contractors hired exclusively from; Search Snippet: ...ENJOINED FROM ENGAGING CONTRACTORS WHO HIRE EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH UNIONS PRACTICING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Copyright (c) 1968 by the Harvard Law Review Association... |
1968 |
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Claims for Reparations for Racism Undermine the Struggle for Equality |
81 Harvard Law Review 1568 (May, 1968) |
The Chicago Department of Urban Renewal prepared, as part of a larger urban renewal program, a redevelopment plan for the Central Englewood area of Chicago. The plan called for the acquisition by eminent domain of approximately 600 dwelling units, eighty-five percent of which are occupied by Negroes, in order to construct facilities for a nearby; Search Snippet: ...RENEWAL--ALLEGATION OF CONSPIRACY TO USE EMINENT DOMAIN POWER FOR RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY PURPOSE IN URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAM DOES NOT STATE A... |
1968 |
Grace Dana Runge |
Constitutional Law |
46 Texas Law Review 800 (April, 1968) |
Plaintiff, a Negro inmate at a federal penitentiary, brought suit in a federal district court to enjoin alleged discriminatory practices by prison officials in the housing of inmates. He alleged that prison policy permitted a prisoner to obtain an assignment to a specific cell only if his request were approved by the men already quartered in that; Search Snippet: ...Note CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Race DiscriminationA Prison Practice Resulting in Racial Segregation Is Permissible When It Promotes the Harmony, Security, and... |
1968 |
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Constitutional Law-- Race-conscious Remedies Enacted by States and Their Local Subdivisions Are Subject to a Strict Scrutiny Standard of Equal Protection Review under Which a Strong Basis in Evidence must Demonstrate the Need for Racial Classifications in |
81 Harvard Law Review 697 (January 1, 1968) |
Tometz v. Board of Educ., No. 40292 (Ill. Sup. Ct. June 22, 1967), summarized in 36 U.S.L.W. 2011 (July 4, 1967). Plaintiffs, seven students, by their parents, sought a mandatory injunction requiring defendant Waukegan City School District to revise its school attendance boundaries. The boundaries in effect at the time of suit in 1965 formed five... |
1968 |
Louis H. Pollak, Dean and Professor of Law, Yale University |
Legal Restraints on Racial Discrimination in Employment |
67 Columbia Law Review 1180 (June, 1967) |
In 1945, in Supplement One to The American Language, Mencken devoted a number of pages to cataloguing and analyzing the plethora of pejoratives with which Americans (white and black) have verbalized the Negro's outcast state. At the close of his discussion Mencken drew attention to a curious euphemism for Negro, apparently originating in the; Search Snippet: ...Columbia Law Review June, 1967 Book Review LEGAL RESTRAINTS ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT By Michael I. Sovern. New York: The... |
1967 |
Sanford Jay Rosen |
Legal Storytelling: the Murder of Voter Id |
81 Harvard Law Review 276 (November, 1967) |
Professor Sovern's study, five years in preparation, has been well worth the wait. Addressed principally to the concerned layman, the practitioner, and the government official, this book also satisfies much of the demand for a truly scholarly work in the field of employment discrimination. After defining the problem and tracing a brief history of; Search Snippet: ...Harvard Law Review November, 1967 Book Review LEGAL RESTRAINTS ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT. BY MICHAEL I. SOVERN. [FN1] NEW YORK... |
1967 |
Louis H. Pollak |
Mark Elliott, Color-blind Justice: Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy V. Ferguson, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 308. $30.00 (Isbn 978-0195181395) |
80 Harvard Law Review 1635 (June 1, 1967) |
THE greatest brutality of our time, wrote Mark Howe, is racial inequality. The apparent simplicity of his statement belies the complexity of feeling and thought which underlay it. There was of course the moral imperative to do away with iniquity. But there was also the historical imperative to bring American law and life into conformity with... |
1967 |
Pauli Murray |
Legal Restraints on Racial Discrimination in Employment. By Michael I. Sovern. New York: the Twentieth Century Fund. 1966. Pp. Ix, 270, 54 (Notes). $6.00. |
45 Texas Law Review 390 (December, 1966) |
Racial discrimination in employment, a major civil-rights issue since the beginning of World War II, has been a strong motivating factor of numerous protest demonstrations in the 1960's. It contributes heavily to chronic joblessness and poverty among Negroes and to the continued unrest which explodes into violent racial disturbances. Against a; Search Snippet: ...Texas Law Review December, 1966 Book Review LEGAL RESTRAINTS ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT By Michael I. Sovern. New York: The... |
1966 |
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Racial Discrimination and the Federal Law: a Problem in Nullification |
65 Columbia Law Review 273 (February, 1965) |
Twenty years ago the Supreme Court recognized that unions certified as exclusive bargaining agents have a duty to protect equally the interests of all employees in the bargaining unit. Discrimination that was irrelevant and invidiousfor example, racial discriminationcould be judicially remedied by injunctive relief or an award of damages. In... |
1965 |
Owen M. Fiss |
Racial Impact Statements |
78 Harvard Law Review 564 (January, 1965) |
Whether racial imbalance in public schools can be remedied is perhaps the most controversial contemporary issue in the field of constitutional law. The author argues that a school board is constitutionally permitted to correct this imbalance and further that the equal protection clause may sometimes require a school board to adopt correctional... |
1965 |
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The Demise of Racial Districting and the Future of Black Representation |
74 Yale Law Journal 919 (April, 1965) |
Collins, a Negro, was indicted, convicted and sentenced to death for the aggravated rape and attempted murder of a white woman. At the time of Collins' arrest there were no Negroes on the grand jury then sitting. Collins' case was not presented to this grand jury, but instead he was held in jail for six months until he could be indicted by a new; Search Snippet: ...April, 1965 Notes and Comments THE DEFENDANT'S CHALLENGE TO A RACIAL CRITERION IN JURY SELECTION: A STUDY IN STANDING, DUE PROCESS... |
1965 |
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2. Racial Discrimination by Private Clubs Holding State Liquor Licenses. |
78 Harvard Law Review 233 (November, 1964) |
This Term, shortly before Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banning racial discrimination in many areas of public accommodations, the Supreme Court was again presented with the question whether the fourteenth amendment forbids a state to enforce its criminal trespass laws against Negroes engaged in a restaurant sit-in demonstration.... |
1964 |
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3. Reversion of Racially Discriminatory Trusts |
78 Harvard Law Review 252 (November, 1964) |
Wright v. Rockefeller, decided this Term, was the second case of racial gerrymandering to reach the Supreme Court. The plaintiffs, residents of all four Manhattan congressional districts, sued for declaratory and injunctive relief, asserting that their fourteenth amendment right to equal protection of the laws had been violated by racially oriented... |
1964 |
P. Dexter Peacock |
Labor Law |
43 Texas Law Review 108 (November, 1964) |
Locals 1 and 2 of the Independent Metal Workers Union, the jointly certified bargaining representatives of the employees of Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, were racially segregated. Their 1959 employment contract with Hughes strictly divided the types of jobs available between whites and Negroes. In December, 1961, Local 1 and the employer; Search Snippet: ...Represent Fairly Members of Bargaining Unit is Unfair Labor Practice; Racial Segregation of Locals Constitutes Grounds for Revocation of Certification. Hughes... |
1964 |
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1. Racial Discrimination in Federally Funded Programs |
77 Harvard Law Review 127 (November, 1963) |
The ten Negro petitioners in Peterson v. City of Greenville had been convicted under a South Carolina criminal trespass statute for refusing to leave an S. H. Kress lunch counter at the request of the manager. At trial the manager testified that he had acted solely because of the petitioners' race and in response to local customs and a city... |
1963 |
Louis Lusky |
Racial Discrimination and the Relationship Between the Directorial Duty of Care and Corporate Disclosure |
63 Columbia Law Review 1163 (November, 1963) |
Gradualism has come to be regarded as a dirty word among Negroes. Ever louder is their demand for equality now. Consider the Negro father whose nine-year-old child attends the same Mississippi school he himself attended, and his own father before him. In the year in which the child was born, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that racial; Search Snippet: ...111065 COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW Columbia Law Review November, 1963 Article RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND THE FEDERAL LAW: A PROBLEM IN NULLIFICATION Louis... |
1963 |
Michael I. Sovern |
The Natural Persistence of Racial Disparities in Crime-based Removals |
62 Columbia Law Review 563 (April, 1962) |
When the United States Commission on Civil Rights completed its recent study of discrimination in employment, its findings began on the same depressing note sounded by virtually every student of the problem since the end of slavery: [N]egro workers are still disproportionately concentrated in the ranks of the unskilled and semiskilled in both... |
1962 |
Charles W. Wolfram |
Common Ground: Exploring Policy Approaches to Addressing Racial Disparities from the Left and the Right |
39 Texas Law Review 501 (April, 1961) |
Restaurant leased premises in a terminal building (owned and administered by Terminal) at which an interstate motor carrier (Busline) made regularly scheduled stops. Defendant, a Negro interstate passenger of Busline, entered the restaurant during such a stop and requested food service in a section reserved by Restaurant for white persons. He; Search Snippet: ...April, 1961 Note COMMON CARRIERSTRESPASSINTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT PROHIBITS RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY BUS TERMINAL RESTAURANT. BOYNTON V. VIRGINIA, 81 SUP... |
1961 |
William W. Van Alstyne , Kenneth L. Karst |
State Bar Dedicates 25th Michigan Legal Milestone, "Striking Racial Covenants" |
14 Stanford Law Review Rev. 3 (December, 1961) |
Not since the Civil War has the demand for racial equality pressed down on the national conscience so heavily as during this past decade. And not since the era of Reconstruction have the federal courts been called upon so frequently to establish constitutional standards for racial equality. The framing of the judicial response to this demand is; Search Snippet: ...state action cases historically have tended to be concerned with racial equality (see text accompanying notes 2-5 infra and because... |
1961 |
Louis H. Pollak |
Racial Discrimination and Jury Selection |
108 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1 (November, 1959) |
To the great and on-going public debate on the proper scope of judicial review, notable contributions have been forthcoming from two distinguished students of the Supreme Court who have, last year and this, delivered the annual Holmes Lecture at Harvard. The first of these contributions is Learned Hand's eloquent essay The Bill of Rights. The... |
1959 |
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Racial Discrimination in Implementing the Death Penalty |
107 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 515 (February, 1959) |
Among the problems fostered by racial discrimination in the United States is that of inadequate housing available to members of minority groups. General housing shortages are intensified for minority group members because of special restrictions on the market in which they can buy or rent. These restrictions are both economic and social. The; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW University of Pennsylvania Law Review February, 1959 Note RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING Copyright (c) 1959 by University of Pennsylvania... |
1959 |
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Merchant's Racial Slurs Violated Customer's Civil Rights, N.j. Court Says |
58 Columbia Law Review 1084 (November, 1958) |
Two weeks before a representation election in a North Carolina hosiery mill, the employer mailed a letter to its employees which cited evidences of the union's pro-integration views. After losing the election, forty to eight, the union filed an objection to conduct affecting the results of the election with the National Labor Relations Board,... |
1958 |
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Racial Discrimination and Private Education-a Legal Analysis |
71 Harvard Law Review 766 (February, 1958) |
Like other important social institutions, the private school of the South-- and by this the author means traditional private education, not the ersatz variety which is being discussed in some quarters as a substitute for the desegregated public school (p. ix)--has been exposed to heavy and conflicting pressures by the struggle to eliminate the; Search Snippet: ...HARVARD LAW REVIEW Harvard Law Review February, 1958 Book Note RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND PRIVATE EDUCATION By Arthur S. Miller. [FN1] Chapel... |
1958 |
C. M. Hudspeth |
Racial Discrimination and the Death Penalty in the Post-furman Era: an Empirical and Legal Overview, with Recent Findings from Philadelphia |
36 Texas Law Review 704 (May, 1958) |
Whether private schools can escape the impact of the Supreme Court's decision in the school Segregation Cases is as yet unanswered. The answer is significant not only because of the growing number of private schools, but because of the effect which the outcome may have in influencing other fields of private property rights. Both absolutely, and in... |
1958 |
V. R. Burch, Jr. |
Constitutional Law--standard of Review for Fourteenth Amendment Challenges--strict Scrutiny Is the Standard of Review for Equal Protection Challenges to Governmental Racial Classification in Prison |
34 Texas Law Review 1085 (October, 1956) |
Several Negro children were admitted to two elementary schools in Hillsboro, Ohio, that were formerly all-white. Immediately thereafter, the board of education closed the schools, and divided the city into school zones in such a fashion that the Negro children were reassigned to the formerly all-Negro school; as a result, only white children; Search Snippet: ...SCHOOL DISTRICTSINJUNCTIONABUSE OF DISCRETION IN REFUSING TO ENJOIN RACIAL SEGREGATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOL. CLEMONS V. BOARD OF EDUC., 228... |
1956 |
Morton Allan Rudberg |
Constitutional Limits on Racial Redistricting: Miller V. Johnson, 115 S. Ct. 2475 (1995). |
34 Texas Law Review 767 (May, 1956) |
A deed by which the defendant gratuitously conveyed land to the city for use as a public park declared that unless the park was maintained for and used by white persons exclusively, the land would revert to the grantor, his heirs or assigns. In an action instituted by the city commission seeking a declaratory judgment the trial court concluded that; Search Snippet: ...LAWUSE OF FEE SIMPLE DETERMINABLE AS MEANS OF CONSTITUTIONAL RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.CHARLOTTE PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION V. BARRINGER, 88 S.E... |
1956 |
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Constitutional Law - Equal Protection of the Laws - Judicial Enforcement of Racial Restrictive Covenants Is State Action Prohibited by the Fourteenth Amendment |
66 Harvard Law Review 353 (December, 1952) |
Defendant sold his land to a Negro in violation of a restrictive covenant against its use and occupancy by a non-Caucasian. The agreement had not been made in connection with the transfer which subdivided the area, but was entered into by neighboring lot owners. Neither defendant nor plaintiff, an adjoining landowner, was an original party to the; Search Snippet: ...PROTECTION OF THE LAWS AWARD OF DAMAGES FOR BREACH OF RACIAL RESTRICTIVE COVENANT DENIED AS VIOLATION OF FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT Copyright ©... |
1952 |
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Growing Inequality and Racial Economic Gaps |
61 Yale Law Journal 730 (May, 1952) |
Social scientists consider segregation to be a basic form of racial discrimination. Regulating the multitude of daily contacts between races, it has become the primary symbol of the Negro's inferiority. Because the school is society's chief agency for conserving and transmitting its culture, educa tional segregation has extra significance. A; Search Snippet: ...May, 1952 Note GRADE SCHOOL SEGREGATION: THE LATEST ATTACK ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION [FNa1] Copyright © 1952 by the Yale Law Journal Company... |
1952 |
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Racial Discrimination Claims in Current Mortgage and Auto Finance Litigation: the Song Remains the Same |
52 Columbia Law Review 1058 (December, 1952) |
A contract between defendant railroad and defendant brotherhood of brakemen stipulated that another class of employees, designated as train porters and represented by a separate union, could no longer perform the work of brakemen. Since train porters' duties consisted almost entirely in the performance of brakemen's work and since, being Negroes,; Search Snippet: ...COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW Columbia Law Review December, 1952 Recent Development RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY A UNION AGAINST EMPLOYEES IT DOES NOT REPRESENT... |
1952 |
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Constitutional Law--procedural Due Process--fifth Amendment Right to Grand Jury--the United States Supreme Court Held That a Caucasian Criminal Defendant Has Standing to Raise Equal Protection and Due Process Claims Based upon the Racially Discriminatory |
63 Harvard Law Review 1062 (April, 1950) |
In Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948), 61 Harv. L. Rev. 1450, the Supreme Court held that a state decree enjoining a Negro from acquiring or occupying property covered by a racial restrictive covenant denied him the equal protection of the laws. But the court did not discuss whether likewise the award of damages for breach of such a covenant; Search Snippet: ...RIGHTS: CIVIL--STATE COURT'S AWARD OF DAMAGES FOR BREACH OF RACIAL RESTRICTIVE COVENANT DOES NOT VIOLATE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT Copyright (c) 1950... |
1950 |
Wiley N. Anderson, Jr. |
Copyright's One-way Racial Appropriation Ratchet |
28 Texas Law Review 110 (November, 1949) |
A deed from A conveying residential property to B provided that the land should not be sold to persons of Mexican descent and that in the event of any violation thereof all title to the then owner and occupant shall be forfeited to the grantor. B sold the land to C, a person of Mexican descent. Before C took possession, A executed a deed to D,; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Texas Law Review November, 1949 Recent Case CONVEYANCING RACIAL RESTRICTIONS CONDITIONS SUBSEQUENT AND SPECIAL LIMITATIONS. CLIFTON V. PUENTE, 218... |
1949 |
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Constitutional Law - Equal Protection of the Laws - Statute Requiring Redrawing of School Attendance Zones to Achieve Racial Balance Violates Equal Protection Clause of Fourteenth Amendment |
61 Harvard Law Review 1450 (September, 1948) |
A Negro purchased from a willing seller property restricted by covenant against use and occupancy by any person not of the Caucasian race. On the petition of an adjoining landowner, a state court ordered an injunction restraining the Negro from taking possession of the property and directed that title be revested in the seller. Held, on; Search Snippet: ...CONSTITUTIONAL LAW EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENT OF RACIAL RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS IS STATE ACTION PROHIBITED BY THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT... |
1948 |
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Prejudice. Japanese-americans: Symbol of Racial Intolerance. By Carey Mcwifliams. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1944. Pp. 337. $3.00 |
57 Yale Law Journal 1162 (April, 1948) |
The Supreme Court has decided unanimously that the enforcement of racial restrictive covenants is unconstitutional. The Justice Department's brief in this litigation has been reprinted in book form with a four page introduction by Wesley McCune, relegation of the footnotes to the back pages and a slight change in the order of presentation. Its... |
1948 |