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In November 1970, Justice notably ordered the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to desegregate its schools in United States v. Texas, which is regarded as one of the most extensive desegregation orders in legal history as it encompassed over a thousand school districts and nearly two million students. [2]
The Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, better known as the Taft–Hartley Act, is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor unions. It was enacted by the 80th United States Congress over the veto of President Harry S. Truman, becoming law on June 23, 1947.
United States v. Texas, 599 U.S. ___ (2023), a case in which the Supreme Court considered whether the states have Article III standing to challenge the legality of the Department of Homeland Security's guidelines for the enforcement of civil immigration law. United States v. Texas, a case in which the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ...
Texas v. Johnson , 491 U.S. 397 (1989), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that burning the Flag of the United States was protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution , as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech .
July 5 – Right to vote: The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution is formally certified by President Richard Nixon, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18. July 19 – The South Tower of the World Trade Center is topped out at 1,362 feet (415 m), making it the second tallest building in the world.
1996 — Hopwood v. Texas, 78 F.3d 932 (5th Cir. 1996) [71] — first successful legal challenge to race conscious admissions since Regents of the University of California v. Bakke; 1996 — Piscataway School Board v. Taxman, 91 F.3d 1547 (3d Cir. 1996) 1998 — Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod v. FCC, 141 F.3d 344 (D.C. Cir. 1998) 1999 ...
Washington has responded by suing Texas over various issues, including Abbott installing floating barriers to block migrants in the Rio Grande (U.S. v. Abbott) and asserting in its S.B. 4 law the ...
In the inverse condemnation context, it is the property owner who sues the government, alleging a taking (or damaging) of property without just compensation. See San Diego Gas & Electric Co. v. City of San Diego, 450 U.S. 621, 638 n.2 (1981) (Justice Brennan dissenting); United States v. Clarke, 445 U.S. 253, 257 (1980); Agins v.