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Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996) A Colorado state constitutional amendment that prevents homosexuals and bisexuals from being able to obtain protections under the law is a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Lawrence v.
Rule [ edit ] A state's legitimate interest in safeguarding rights of persons injured there allows that state to apply its own law to redress the injury without violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution .
Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the knowing use of false testimony by a prosecutor in a criminal case violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, even if the testimony affects only the credibility of the witness and does not directly relate to the innocence or guilt of ...
desegregated law schools in Texas McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents: 1950 339 U.S. 637 prohibited racially unfriendly practices within a state graduate program Hernandez v. Texas: 1954 347 U.S. 475 the 14th Amendment protects those beyond the racial classes of white or Negro Briggs v. Elliott: 1952 347 U.S. 483 Brown case 1 Summerton, South ...
Skinner v. State of Oklahoma, ex rel. Williamson, 316 U.S. 535 (1942), is a unanimous United States Supreme Court ruling [1] that held that laws permitting the compulsory sterilization of criminals are unconstitutional as it violates a person's rights given under the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution, specifically the Equal Protection Clause and the Due Process Clause.
Justice Frankfurter wrote the majority opinion which struck down the prior conviction, arguing that the brutality of the means used to extract the evidence from Rochin "shocks the conscience," and it clearly violates the due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Frankfurter also admitted the term "due process" was nebulous ...
The Fourteenth amendment was ratified by nervous Republicans in response to the rise of Black Codes. [15] This ratification was irregular in many ways. First, there were multiple states that rejected the Fourteenth Amendment, but when their new governments were created due to reconstruction, these new governments accepted the amendment. [16]
The Court held unanimously that a Louisville, Kentucky, city ordinance prohibiting the sale of real property to blacks in white-majority neighborhoods or buildings and vice versa violated the Fourteenth Amendment's protections for freedom of contract. The ruling of the Kentucky Court of Appeals was thus reversed.