Cases & Legislation

Court Cases Involving Racial Issues - University Libraries Seton Hall University
Court Cases Involving Racial Issues - University Libraries Seton Hall University
"This page outlines various key court cases that deal with racial issues from a legal standpoint. These sites offer an introduction and information about historic precedents and other data that also impact on viewpoints found in relation to decisions made within wider society."
·library.shu.edu·
Court Cases Involving Racial Issues - University Libraries Seton Hall University
U.S. Supreme Court Takes up FBI Bid to Block Muslim Civil Rights Suit - Lawrence Hurley
U.S. Supreme Court Takes up FBI Bid to Block Muslim Civil Rights Suit - Lawrence Hurley
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the FBI's bid to block a civil rights lawsuit by three Muslim men from California who accused the agency of illegally conducting surveillance on them following the Sept. 11 2001 attacks on the United States."
·usnews.com·
U.S. Supreme Court Takes up FBI Bid to Block Muslim Civil Rights Suit - Lawrence Hurley
5 Explosive U.S. Supreme Court Cases That Defined Race in America - Donna Patricia Ward
5 Explosive U.S. Supreme Court Cases That Defined Race in America - Donna Patricia Ward
"Justices of the United States Supreme Court have heard and ruled on many cases that have dealt with race”questions such as who has the right to use the courts where can black and white people live what public schools can a person attend and how can education be equal for everyone? For the courts rulings from earlier cases set a precedent for current and future rulings. Sometimes the Court even states when an earlier Court's ruling was just flat out wrong or misguided. The five cases below were decided by the U.S. Supreme Court and dealt with how the Court interpreted race and who has rights under the law."
·historycollection.com·
5 Explosive U.S. Supreme Court Cases That Defined Race in America - Donna Patricia Ward
Breathe Act - Electoral Justice Project of the Movement for Black Lives
Breathe Act - Electoral Justice Project of the Movement for Black Lives
"We are rising up against all the ways that the criminal-legal system has harmed and failed to protect Black communities. The current moment requires a solution that fundamentally shifts how we envision community-care and invest in our society. History is clear that we cannot achieve genuine safety and liberation until we abandon police prisons and all punishment paradigms."
·breatheact.org·
Breathe Act - Electoral Justice Project of the Movement for Black Lives
H.R.40 - Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
H.R.40 - Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
"This bill establishes the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans. The commission shall examine slavery and discrimination in the colonies and the United States from 1619 to the present and recommend appropriate remedies. Among other requirements the commission shall identify (1) the role of federal and state governments in supporting the institution of slavery (2) forms of discrimination in the public and private sectors against freed slaves and their descendants and (3) lingering negative effects of slavery on living African-Americans and society."
·congress.gov·
H.R.40 - Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act
Police Misconduct Laws and Claims in Arizona - Find Law
Police Misconduct Laws and Claims in Arizona - Find Law
"Police officers are given wide latitude to stop and detain suspects since they're entrusted with the enforcement power of the law. When an officer orders you to "freeze" or submit to a search it's generally in your best interests to do so. But this doesn't mean they're above the law as police misconduct -- whether it's blatant racial profiling or the use of excessive force -- is strictly illegal. If an Arizona officer has violated your civil rights you may want to pursue a claim in civil court. Police misconduct runs the gamut from unlawful search and seizure (in violation of the Fourth Amendment) to planting false evidence on a suspect. And while police are protected by "qualified immunity" as long as their actions don't violate specific individual rights you have legal options in the event they do in fact violate your rights."
·statelaws.findlaw.com·
Police Misconduct Laws and Claims in Arizona - Find Law
Colorado Senate Bill 20-217
Colorado Senate Bill 20-217
"Colorado passed a sweeping police reform bill [...] among other reforms bans chokeholds and makes officers personally liable if they are found guilty of violating a person's civil rights." Li Cohen CBS News
·leg.colorado.gov·
Colorado Senate Bill 20-217
Plessy v. Ferguson - Oyez
Plessy v. Ferguson - Oyez
"Louisiana enacted the Separate Car Act which required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892 Homer Plessy – who was seven-eighths Caucasian – agreed to participate in a test to challenge the Act. He was solicited by the Comite des Citoyens (Committee of Citizens) a group of New Orleans residents who sought to repeal the Act. They asked Plessy who was technically black under Louisiana law to sit in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train."
·oyez.org·
Plessy v. Ferguson - Oyez
House Bill 2935 - CROWN Act
House Bill 2935 - CROWN Act
"Limits authority of school district to become member of voluntary organization that administers interscholastic activities unless organization implements policy that prohibits discrimination based on race color or national origin. Clarifies meaning of race to include natural hair hair texture hair type and protective hairstyles for purposes of prohibited discrimination under antidiscrimination statutes. Clarifies that valid dress code or policy may not have disproportionate adverse impact on members of protected class to extent that is greater than impact on persons generally."
·olis.oregonlegislature.gov·
House Bill 2935 - CROWN Act
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka - Oyez
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka - Oyez
"This case was the consolidation of cases arising in Kansas South Carolina Virginia Delaware and Washington D.C. relating to the segregation of public schools on the basis of race. In each of the cases African American students had been denied admittance to certain public schools based on laws allowing public education to be segregated by race. They argued that such segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The plaintiffs were denied relief in the lower courts based on Plessy v. Ferguson which held that racially segregated public facilities were legal so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal.
·oyez.org·
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka - Oyez
Criminal Justice Reform in the States: Spotlight on Legislatures
Criminal Justice Reform in the States: Spotlight on Legislatures
Many criminal justice reform efforts happen in state legislatures, far from the spotlight. This interactive page tracks major legislative developments around the country.
·theappeal.org·
Criminal Justice Reform in the States: Spotlight on Legislatures
Legislative Responses for Policing-State Bill Tracking Database
Legislative Responses for Policing-State Bill Tracking Database
NCSL's policing legislation database provides you with legislation introduced in all 50 states on law enforcement oversight, data, policing alternatives and collaboration, technology including body cameras, training, standards and certification, use of force standards and other issues.
·ncsl.org·
Legislative Responses for Policing-State Bill Tracking Database
Jamison v McClendon - No. 3:16-CV-595-CWR-LRA
Jamison v McClendon - No. 3:16-CV-595-CWR-LRA
"This week a federal judge reluctantly concluded the officer should benefit from qualified immunity a legal doctrine that shields law enforcement from many claims of wrongdoing on the job." Carrie Johnson NPR
·apps.npr.org·
Jamison v McClendon - No. 3:16-CV-595-CWR-LRA