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  2. Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma

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    Only four days after argument, on January 12, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Sipuel. The court ruled that the state of Oklahoma must provide instruction for Blacks equal to that of Whites, requiring the admission of qualified black students to previously all-white state law schools, reversing the Supreme Court of Oklahoma decision.

  3. Craig v. Boren - Wikipedia

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    This case was part of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's work with the ACLU Women's Rights Project. [2]An Oklahoma statute prohibiting the sale of "nonintoxicating" 3.2% beer to males under the age of 21 but allowed females over the age of 18 was challenged as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause in the District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma in 1971.

  4. Bostock v. Clayton County - Wikipedia

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    Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020), is a landmark [1] United States Supreme Court civil rights decision in which the Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

  5. List of landmark court decisions in the United States

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    Acton, 515 U.S. 646 (1995) Schools may implement random drug testing upon students participating in school-sponsored athletics. Ohio v. Robinette , 519 U.S. 33 (1996) The Fourth Amendment does not require police officers to inform a motorist at the end of a traffic stop that they are free to go before seeking permission to search the motorist's ...

  6. List of gender equality lawsuits - Wikipedia

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    Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan: admission to School of Nursing: Supreme Court of the United States: 1982 Mmusi and Others v Ramantele and Another: inheritance by women under customary law: Botswana Court of Appeal: 2013 Native Women's Assn of Canada v Canada: financial support for interest groups: Supreme Court of Canada: 1994 Orr v ...

  7. Briggs v. Elliott - Wikipedia

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    Following the Brown decision, the district court issued a decree that struck down the school segregation law in South Carolina as unconstitutional and required the state's schools to integrate. Harry and Eliza Briggs, Reverend Joseph A. DeLaine , and Levi Pearson were awarded Congressional Gold Medals posthumously in 2003.

  8. Missouri v. Jenkins - Wikipedia

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    Missouri v. Jenkins, 515 U.S. 70 (1995), is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court.On June 12, 1995 the Court, in a 5–4 decision, reversed a district court ruling that required the state of Missouri to correct intentional racial discrimination in Kansas City schools by funding salary increases and remedial education programs.

  9. United States v. Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law Steve Vladeck was highly positive of the Ginsburg decision: "The majority opinion in the VMI case is perhaps the best-known and most important majority opinion Justice Ginsburg has penned in her 24 years on the Supreme Court. That case, more than any other, epitomized the justices ...