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Political disfranchisement did not end until after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which authorized the federal government to monitor voter registration practices and elections where populations were historically underrepresented and to enforce constitutional voting rights. The challenge to voting rights has continued into the ...
In the early 1800s, many states removed their property requirements for voting, while at the same time several states disenfranchised women and free African-Americans. [ 3 ] By 1840, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Virginia were the only states that still had property requirements to vote.
Mary L. Wiseman (born November 17, 1961) is an American lawyer and judge from Ohio. On October 22, 2007, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland appointed her to the Ohio Courts of Common Pleas for Montgomery County.
Ohio's high court has given Republican Attorney General Dave Yost until Monday to respond to the legal claims of a coalition of civil rights organizations that is challenging his rejection of a ...
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A coalition of voting-rights groups is vowing to fight on after Ohio Republican Attorney General Dave Yost issued his second rejection Thursday of petition language it has submitted for a proposed ...
Open fields near Lisbon, Ohio. The open-fields doctrine (also open-field doctrine or open-fields rule), in the U.S. law of criminal procedure, is the legal doctrine that a "warrantless search of the area outside a property owner's curtilage" does not violate the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. However, "unless there is some ...
Prince Georges County: In 1967 Kathryn Kusner applied for a jockey license through the Maryland Racing Commission but was denied because she was a woman. [108] Later, Judge Ernest A. Loveless of the Circuit Court of Prince Georges County ordered her to be granted the license, [109] and Kusner became the first licensed female jockey in the ...