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October 8 – A Federal judge in Harrisonburg, Virginia, rules that public money may not be used for segregated private schools. October 20 – Thirteen black Alabamians are arrested for sitting in the front of a bus in Birmingham. November 28 – Federal court throws out Louisiana law against integrated athletic events.
Ableman v. Booth, 62 U.S. 506 (1859) State courts cannot issue rulings that contradict the decisions of federal courts. Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1869) The states that formed the Confederate States of America during the Civil War never actually left the Union because a state cannot unilaterally secede from the United States. Hans v.
Ben Chester White (January 5, 1899 – June 10, 1966) was an African-American caretaker, uninvolved in the civil rights movement, shot down by the KKK. This was likely in an attempt to move focus away from James Meredith ’s March Against Fear or to lure Martin Luther King, Jr . in an assassination attempt.
Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. 220 U.S. 107 (1911) constitutionality of corporate income tax: United States v. Grimaud: 220 U.S. 506 (1911) control of forest reserves Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States: 221 U.S. 1 (1910) dissolving interstate monopolies Dowdell v. United States: 221 U.S. 325 (1911) sometimes considered one of the Insular ...
The United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (in case citations, W.D. La.) is a United States federal court with jurisdiction over approximately two thirds of the state of Louisiana, with courts in Alexandria, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Monroe, and Shreveport. These cities comprise the Western District of Louisiana.
Johnson v. Louisiana, 406 U. S. 356 (1972), was a court case in the U.S. Supreme Court involving the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Louisiana law that allowed less-than unanimous jury verdicts (9 to 12 jurors) to convict persons ...
A federal judge on Monday granted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as employers in two Southern states, temporary relief from complying with a federal rule that would have required ...
Hans v. Louisiana, 134 U.S. 1 (1890), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court determining that the Eleventh Amendment prohibits a citizen of a U.S. state from suing that state in a federal court. [1] Citizens cannot bring suits against their own state for cases related to the federal constitution and federal laws. [2]