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  2. Civil Rights Cases - Wikipedia

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    The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), were a group of five landmark cases in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments did not empower Congress to outlaw racial discrimination by private individuals.

  3. Bostock v. Clayton County - Wikipedia

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    Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020), is a landmark [1] United States Supreme Court civil rights decision in which the Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

  4. Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. - Wikipedia

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    Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 392 U.S. 409 (1968), is a landmark United States Supreme Court case which held that Congress could regulate the sale of private property to prevent racial discrimination: "[42 U.S.C. § 1982] bars all racial discrimination, private as well as public, in the sale or rental of property, and that the statute, thus construed, is a valid exercise of the power of ...

  5. List of landmark court decisions in the United States

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    First 20th-century case where the Court protected the rights of Blacks in the South, and one of its first to review a criminal conviction for constitutionality. Sorrells v. United States , 287 U.S. 435 (1932) Entrapment is a valid defense to a criminal charge.

  6. Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner - Wikipedia

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    On June 21, 1964, three Civil Rights Movement activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by local members of the Ku Klux Klan.They had been arrested earlier in the day for speeding, and after being released were followed by local law enforcement & others, all affiliated with the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [1]

  7. L.A. County D.A. to pay $5 million in civil rights case over ...

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    The L.A. County district attorney's office will pay $5 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought by the head of a tiny Michigan software company that became the focus of a bungled 2022 ...

  8. South Carolina sheriff who told deputy to shock inmate is ...

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    A jury has found a sheriff in South Carolina not guilty of violating a jail inmate's civil rights when he ordered a deputy to shock the man several times with a Taser. The federal jury deliberated ...

  9. Shelby County v. Holder - Wikipedia

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    Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), is a landmark decision [1] of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the constitutionality of two provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: Section 5, which requires certain states and local governments to obtain federal preclearance before implementing any changes to their voting laws or practices; and subsection (b) of Section 4 ...