74 S.Ct. 686 BROWN ET AL. v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TOPEKA ET AL. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS.[*] No. 1. Argued December 9, 1952. Reargued December 8, 1953. Decided May 17, 1954. [*] Page 483 Together with No. 2, Briggs et al. v. Elliott et al., on […]
60 U.S. 393 60 U.S. 393 19 How. 393 15 L.Ed. 691 DRED SCOTT, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR,v.JOHN F. A. SANDFORD. December Term, 1856 [Syllabus from pages 393-395 intentionally omitted] THIS case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Missouri. It was an action […]
303 U.S. 552 303 U.S. 552 58 S.Ct. 703 82 L.Ed. 1012 NEW NEGRO ALLIANCE et al.v.SANITARY GROCERY CO., Inc. No. 511. Argued March 2, 3, 1938. Decided March 28, 1938. As Amended April 25, 1938. Messrs. Belford V. Lawson, Jr., and Thurman L. Dodson, both of Washington, D.C., for petitioner. Mr. A. Coulter Wells, […]
384 U.S. 808 86 S.Ct. 1800 16 L.Ed.2d 944 The CITY OF GREENWOOD, MISSISSIPPI, Petitioner, v. Willie PEACOCK et al. Willie PEACOCK et al., Petitioners, v. The CITY OF GREENWOOD, MISSISSIPPI. Nos. 471, 649. Argued April 26, 1966. Decided June 20, 1966. Counsel: Hardy Lott, Greenwood, Miss., for petitioner in No. 471 and respondent in […]
364 U.S. 454 81 S.Ct. 182 5 L.Ed.2d 206 Bruce BOYNTON, Petitioner, v. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA. No. 7. Argued Oct. 12, 1960. Decided Dec. 5, 1960. [qtbl style=”color:gray;”] Holding: The United States Supreme Court?overturned a judgment convicting an African American law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal which was […]
163 U.S. 537;?16 S.Ct. 1138;?41 L.Ed. 256 PLESSY v. FERGUSON. UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT No. 210. May 18, 1896. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of “separate but equal”.?The decision was […]
403 U.S. 217 91 S.Ct. 1940 29 L.Ed.2d 438 Hazel PALMER et al., Petitioners, v. Allen C. THOMPSON, Mayor, City of Jackson, et al. No. 107. Argued Dec. 14, 1970. Decided June 14, 1971. Counsel: Paul A. Rosen, Detroit, Mich., and William M. Kunstler, New York City, for petitioners. William F. Goodman, Jr., Jackson, Miss., […]
476 U.S. 79 106 S.Ct. 1712 90 L.Ed.2d 69 James Kirkland BATSON, Petitioner, v. KENTUCKY. No. 84-6263. Argued Dec. 12, 1985. Decided April 30, 1986. [qtbl style=”color:gray;] Summary:?The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a prosecutor’s use of peremptory challenge in a criminal case?the dismissal of jurors without stating a valid cause for doing so?may not […]