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South Carolina v. Katzenbach, 383 U.S. 301 (1966), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that rejected a challenge from the state of South Carolina to the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which required that some states submit changes in election districts to the Attorney General of the United States (at the time, Nicholas Katzenbach). [1]
Edwards vs. South Carolina monument, Columbia, SC. Edwards v. South Carolina, 372 U.S. 229 (1963), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court ruling that the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution forbade state government officials to force a crowd to disperse when they are otherwise legally marching in front of a state house.
H. L. v. Matheson is a Supreme Court abortion rights case, according to which a state may require a doctor to inform a teenaged girl's parents before performing an abortion or face criminal penalty. Rostker v. Goldberg is a decision of the Supreme Court proclaiming that the practice of requiring only men to register for the draft was ...
The civil rights activist was one of the lead plaintiffs in a case that went all the way to the US Supreme Court and upheld a key pillar of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. - Demetrius Freeman/The ...
The Supreme Court had previously rejected the argument that income taxes constituted direct taxes in Springer v. United States (1881). [52] Some legal scholars continue to question whether the Supreme Court ruled correctly in Pollock, [53] but others contend that the original meaning of direct taxes did indeed include income taxes. [54]
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, reenacted 1870) was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. [1]
Among other provisions, the law made it a felony for two or more people to conspire to deprive anyone of his constitutional rights. [4] The white defendants were charged with sixteen counts, divided into two sets of eight each. Among the charges included violating the freedmen's rights to lawfully assemble, to vote, and to bear arms. [5]
Age and voting rights in state elections Massachusetts v. Laird: 400 U.S. 886 (1970) Court declined to hear a case related to the constitutionality of the Vietnam War: Baird v. State Bar of Arizona: 401 U.S. 1 (1971) states cannot ban people from legal practice due to Communist party membership In re Stolar: 401 U.S. 23 (1971)