Tag: Supreme Court

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17th May 1954: U.S. Supreme Court rules in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional

• 17th May 2026
• Tagged as: 14th Amendment, America, Civil Rights, Constitution, Education, Fourteenth Amendment, Law, Legal, Racism, Supreme Court, United States, USA

The unanimous opinion of the Court said that segregated public schools were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional.

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24th September 1789: The Judiciary Act becomes law in the United States of America

• 24th September 2025
• Tagged as: America, Constitution, George Washington, Judiciary, Law, Supreme Court, United States

The Judiciary Act was passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by President George Washington.

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9th March 1841: US Supreme court rules on the Amistad slavery case and sets the captured Africans free

• 9th March 2025
• Tagged as: Africa, America, Cuba, Law, Legal, Racism, Slavery, Supreme Court, United States

The long case eventually went before the Supreme Court who ruled that they had been unlawfully held and thus rebelled in a natural right to self-defence. The court set them free.

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13th November 1956: Supreme Court upholds Browder v Gayle to desegregate buses in Alabama

• 13th November 2024
• Tagged as: Civil Rights, Law, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Racism, Supreme Court, Transport, Transportation

The United States Supreme Court upheld the District Court’s ruling in Browder v. Gayle that segregation on public buses and transportation in Alabama was illegal.

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30th August 1967: Thurgood Marshall confirmed as the first African American Justice of the US Supreme Court

• 30th August 2024
• Tagged as: America, Civil Rights, Court, Johnson, Law, Legal, NAACP, Supreme Court, United States

President Johnson nominated Marshall to the Supreme Court on June 13, 1967, and his nomination was confirmed by the Senate with a vote of 69 to 11 on August 30.

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13th June 1966: Miranda Warning introduced after US Supreme Court says suspects must be told their rights

• 13th June 2024
• Tagged as: Crime, Criminal, Law, Miranda Warning, Police, Supreme Court, USA

Any suspect arrested in the USA must be informed of four key rights. ‘You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can, and will, be used against you in court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed for you.’

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1st June 1916: Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jewish justice on the U.S. Supreme Court

• 1st June 2024
• Tagged as: America, Law, Supreme Court, United States, USA

As a Supreme Court Justice, Brandeis wrote opinions in favor of individual liberty and freedom of speech, while protecting citizens’ right to privacy.

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18th May 1896: The Supreme Court delivers its verdict in Plessy v. Ferguson that approves the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine

• 18th May 2024
• Tagged as: America, Civil Rights, Law, Louisiana, Plessy v Ferguson, Racism, Supreme Court, United States, USA

Plessy v Ferguson effectively legalized racial segregation by permitting separate but supposedly equal facilities.

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6th March 1857: The US Supreme Court makes its ruling in the Dred Scott case

• 6th March 2024
• Tagged as: American Civil War, Civil Rights, Dred Scott, Emancipation, Equality, Law, Missouri, New York, Slavery, Supreme Court

Dred Scott was a slave owned by John Emerson, an army surgeon from the slave state of Missouri.

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22nd January 1973: The Supreme Court issues its decision on the Roe v. Wade abortion case

• 22nd January 2024
• Tagged as: Abortion, America, Law, Medicine, Roe vs Wade, Science, Supreme Court, Texas, United States, USA

Justice Harry Blackmun wrote the majority opinion that the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution gives women in the United States the ‘fundamental’ freedom choice in family matters, including whether or not to have an abortion.