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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
Ward v. Flood 48 Cal. 49–52 (1874) was the first school segregation case before the California Supreme Court, which established the principle of "separate but equal" schools in California law, [1] 22 years before the United States Supreme Court decided Plessy v.
Consolidated with Cargill, Inc. v. Doe, [1] the case concerned a class-action lawsuit against Nestlé USA and Cargill for aiding and abetting child slavery in Côte d’Ivoire by purchasing from cocoa producers that utilize child slave labor from Mali. The plaintiffs, who were former slave laborers in the cocoa farms, brought their claim in U.S ...
The California Department of Education and the State Board of Education, which guides the state's 1,000 K-12 school districts, also issued a brief and limited statement:
Lawmakers in California have revealed a sweeping set of legislative proposals aimed at providing reparations for state residents who are descendants of enslaved Africans.
California's Reparations Task Force is concluding a two-year process to study and gather evidence about the harms of slavery and to recommend reparations to the state Legislature.
In a lawsuit against the state, California families claimed students were deprived of “a free and equal education” during COVID-19. California schools allocate $2 billion for pandemic learning ...
Land Ordinance of 1784: Prohibited slavery in any new states after the year 1800. Omitted in final version of the bill; Wilmot Proviso (1847) - sought to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired in the Mexican-American War. Lodge Fair Elections bill (1890) - proposal to empower the federal government to ensure fair elections.