Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Constitutional Law

Loving v. VA, 388 US 1 (1967)
"There can be no question but that Virginia's miscegenation statutes rest solely upon distinctions drawn according to race."

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 US 1 (1971)
"state-enforced separation of races in public schools is discrimination that violates the Equal Protection Clause. The remedy was to dismantle dual school systems."

Missouri v. Jenkins, 515 US 70 (1995)
"A district court seeking to remedy an intradistrict violation that has not 'directly caused' significant inter-district efffects ... exceeds its remedial authority if it orders a remedy with an interdistrict purpose."

Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, 515 US 200 (1995)
"any person, of whatever race, has the right to demand that any governmental actor subject to the Constitution justify any racial classification subjecting that person to unequal treatment under thhe strictest judicial scrutiny..."

So, there.