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Dred Scott v. Sanford
A slave in Missouri sued for his freedom, because he had been traveled across a slave state to a free state. The court had ruled it unconstitutional because slaves were considered "property" still at the time. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Louisiana had a law that required resteraunts, hotels, and hospitals to serve blacks in seperate, but equal, accomidations, The court said that segregation is "universally recognized as within the competency of states in the excerise of their police powers". -
Brown v. Board II
The Supreme Court said that school systems must abolish their racially dual systems(segragated), but could do so "with all deliberate speed". -
Loving v. Virginia
The Court ended the state laws that prohibited inter-racial marrige and held that marrige is a "fundamnetal right". -
General Electric Co v. Gilbert
The Court ruled that firing or otherwise penalizing pregnant workers was not an unlawful form of sex discrimination. It was then overruled by the Pregnancy Discrimination Acvt of 1978 -
Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson
A unanimous court ruled that sexual harassment is a form of unlawful job discrimination in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. -
Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetry Protection
The Supreme COurt ruled that the building of a Forest Service road through an ancient site held sacred by several tribes did not intervene with the tribes' constitutionally-protected religous freedoms. -
Missouri v. Jenkins
The Court permitted lower courts to order school authorities to increase spending on education remedies even when voters rejected referenda raising taxes. -
UAW v. Johnson Controls
The Court said that the 1964 Civil RIghts Act prohibits companies from firing or excluding only women from jobs that may pose reproductive health hazards, even though the jobs may have the same threats to men. -
Roper v. Simmons
The Supreme Court said that the the death penalty for crimes committed by minors under the age of 18 is unconstitutional. -
Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona
The court invalidated an Arizona law that required the rejection of voter registration applications not accompanied by proof of citizenship. -
Obergefell v. Hodges
The court took down state bans on same-sex marrige, granting the constitutional right to marry LGBTAmericans throughout the country.
