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In November 1970, Justice notably ordered the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to desegregate its schools in United States v. Texas , which is regarded as one of the most extensive desegregation orders in legal history as it encompassed over a thousand school districts and nearly two million students. [ 2 ]
The Cowboy mafia was the nickname for a group of marijuana smugglers who operated in the United States during the 1970s. [1] [2] At the time they were reportedly the most prolific drug smugglers in Texas. The nickname was given to the group by the Dallas media, as the capture and trial of the group created significant media coverage throughout ...
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Officer Scott Smith shot Franklyn Reid to death during a foot chase. The following month, Smith was charged with murder in Reid's death, and was sentenced to 6 years of prison in 2000. The conviction was appealed, and Smith pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of criminally negligent homicide, and received two years of probation. [46 ...
United States v. Texas, 599 U.S. ___ (2023), a case in which the Supreme Court considered whether the states have Article III standing to challenge the legality of the Department of Homeland Security's guidelines for the enforcement of civil immigration law. United States v. Texas, a case in which the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ...
June – The United States enters the severe early 1980s recession, exactly a year after the more minor 1980 recession ended; the unemployment rate is 7.2% June 5 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles , California , have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened ...
June 30 – New York Times Co. v. United States: The Supreme Court of the U.S. rules that the Pentagon Papers may be published, rejecting government injunctions as unconstitutional prior restraint. [8]
Two weeks later, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott sued in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. [1] The suit was joined by twenty-five other states, with 2.2 million of the 3.6 million unauthorized immigrants eligible for DAPA residing in states that did not join the lawsuit. [17]