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Brown V Board of Education:
- Date Occurred: 1954
- Problem: The issue was that parents of African American children had thought that the segregated schools were unfair. They believed these schools harmed the growth of their children in many ways.
- Decision: They did not have equal segregation in all the schools. This violated the fourteenth amendment.
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Mendez V Westminister:
- Date Occurred: 1946.
- Problem: Segregated Anglo and Mexican Americans in California.
- Decision: The segregation violated California laws. The decision was to un-segregate some schools.
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Hernandez V Texas:
- Date Occurred: 1954
- Problem: It was an issue by not allowing or letting Latin/Mexican descendants be on a jury. This deprived cases of a rightful jury, and violated the fourteenth amendment rights.
- Decision: The decision was made that Hernandez's conviction was overturned because his fourteenth amendment rights had been violated.
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Delgado V Bastrop ISD:
- Date Occurred: 1948
- Problem: The issue was that Mexican children grades 1 through 3 were segregated, not only by their race, but by their lack of English skills as well.
- Decision: An injunction was placed on the school district, because again it had violated the fourteenth amendment rights.
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Sweatt V Painter:
- Date Occurred: 1950
- Problem: A 33 year old African American wanted to become a lawyer, and attend University of Texas, since there was not another law school at the time for African Americans. After being denied because he would have been the first African American Student Sweatt had filed a lawsuit against the school.
- Decision: The court ruled in favor of Sweatt, he was granted into the University of Texas under the equal protection rights of the fourteenth amendment.
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Tinker V Des Moines:
- Date Occurred:1969
- Problem: Students had been sent home and some by police force, because they had worn a black arm band to school over the Vietnam War.
- Decision: The court ruled in favor of the students and parents, stating that it had violated the students first amendment rights.
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Wisconsin V Yoder:
- Date Occurred: 1972
- Problem: The Amish Yoder family took their children out of school before the age of 16, and saying that it would hurt their children spiritual growth in the Amish land.
- Decision: The Yoder family won, because their freedom of religion (first amendment) rights had been violated by the state.
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Edgewood V Kirby:
- Date Occurred: 1989
- Problem: Does the public schools finance plan violate the Texas Constitution?
- Decision: Texas supreme court ruled that the system did violate the Texas Constitution.
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White V Regester:
- Date Occurred: 1973
- Problem: Our fourteenth amendment rights violated due to the merging pop-site and ethnics in the redirection of Texas legislation.
- Decision: It was legal for the population site, but illegal for the ethnics site.