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Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez, 372 U.S. 144 (1963) – the Court struck down a law revoking citizenship for remaining outside the United States in order to avoid conscription into the armed forces; Rosenberg v. Fleuti, 374 U.S. 449 (1963) Foti v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 375 U.S. 217 (1963) Thompson v. INS, 375 U.S. 384 (1964 ...
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down both a state statute denying funding for education of undocumented immigrant children in the United States and an independent school district's attempt to charge an annual $1,000 tuition fee for each student to compensate for lost state funding. [1]
Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), sometimes called Deferred Action for Parental Accountability, was a planned United States immigration policy to grant deferred action status to certain undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States since 2010 and have children who are either American citizens or lawful permanent residents.
During arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court in this week's major transgender rights case, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor told the lawyer defending Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming medical care ...
Video footage of migrant families sleeping on cardboard boxes on the sidewalk while waiting outside a processing center in Manhattan spurred debate this week. To understand the causes of and the ...
That requirement was stripped from the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision. New York's law mandates that local governments or school districts with a history of ...
Board of Education of City School District of New Rochelle, 195 F. Supp. 231 (S.D.N.Y. 1961), was a decision by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which ruled that the Board of Education in New Rochelle, NY had created a segregated school system through racially discriminatory policies that confined all ...
The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed. The Supreme Court in February turned away a similar challenge to an admissions policy at a Virginia high school that was also aimed at ...