Supreme Court Decisions

Plessy v Ferguson 1896

Segregation (separating races) and “separate but equal” facilities is constitutional

Korematsu v U.S. (1944)

War tine internment of Japanese Americans is ruled constitutional. Case overturned 1984.

Sweatt v Painter (1950)

Rules that UT Austin’s law school for black students was not equal to Ut’s Law School, set basis for Brown v Board ruling later

Hernandez v Texas (1954)

Mexican Americans cannot be systemically excluded from juries

Brown v Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

Separate is inherently unequal, in public schools/integration (desegregation/mixing races)

Tinker v Des Moines (1969)

Stated students had some 1st amendment rights in schools (Black armbands in protest of Vietnam)

Wisconsin v Yoder (1972)

Amish parents had a freedom of religion to keep their children out of high school

Bush v Gore (2000)

Decision settled a recount issue in Florida’s 2000 presidential election