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Charged with "conspiracy to violate slavery laws" after offering to employ illegal immigrants and then keeping them as prisoners after Kimes was unwilling or unable to pay them. Kimes was sentenced to five years in prison for violating federal anti-slavery laws 2021: Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe: Supreme Court of the United States
Decided 1874; Citation(s) Ward v. Flood, 48 Cal 49–52 (1874).: Holding; The law providing for the education of children of African descent in separate schools at the public expense is not in conflict with the Constitution of California, nor in conflict with the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
In 1849, a white man lost a case against a black man who was accused of both being a slave and being in debt to the accuser. At the time, California was not under U.S. rule, and Mexican law, which prohibited slavery, was used in the case. This resulted in the legal precedent of the official non-acknowledgement of slavery in California.
Back in 2017, the families of children in some of California's worst-performing public schools sued the state for failing to teach low-income black and Hispanic children how to read.
(Reuters) -After California state legislators passed bills addressing the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the most ambitious of the reparations proposals.
Tape v. Hurley, 66 Cal. 473, (1885) was a landmark court case in the California Supreme Court in which the Court found the exclusion of a Chinese American student from public school based on her ancestry unlawful. The case effectively ruled that minority children were entitled to attend public school in California.
California's Reparations Task Force on Thursday released its final report, marking a milestone in the state's historic effort to consider remedies for slavery.
rejected bussing across school district lines Regents of the University of California v. Bakke: 1978 438 U.S. 265 race could be considered among other factors in the college admissions process, but racial quotas under affirmative action are unconstitutional Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1: 2007 551 U.S. 701