The Anglo-American common-law tradition is built on the doctrine of Stare Decisis ("stand by decided matters")‚ which directs a court to look to past decisions for guidance on how to decide a case before it. This means that the legal rules applied to a prior case with facts similar to those of the case now before a court should be applied to resolve the legal dispute. The use of precedent has been justified as providing predictability‚ stability‚ fairness‚ and efficiency in the law. Reliance upon
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2019253--4th Hour More than five years ago‚ a Mississippi court featured a case with a biased and racially bigoted jury (Washington). The defendant‚ Curtis Flowers‚ could not receive a fair trial as long as whites outnumbered African Americans on the jury. Aside from the fact that Curtis Flowers’ verdict was guilty‚ the case reveals the abundance of racism evident in courts. Throughout the second part of To Kill a Mockingbird‚ racism overshadows equality in the Tom Robinson Case. Many changes come
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children all around the United States to be able to go to the same schools as white children. The 14 Amendment was violated by this case. It states that anyone colored or not born in the US is equal. The states referred this case as the Plessy vs. Ferguson which had allowed separate but equal school systems for whites and african americans
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“Black or White” is a common expression asked at the beginning of every chess game. Now go back in time to when your perceived human rights wholly depended on that status of your pigmentation and oblivious to all other criteria. What do you choose‚ black or white? This was the case some sixty‚ some odd years ago and to this day still has some of the same challenges that were argued decades before. Segregation has been a tool utilized often by old white supremacists in order to maintain any semblance
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allowed it. In 1952‚ the Supreme Court heard a number of school-segregation cases‚ including Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka‚ Kansas. This case decided unanimously in 1954 that segregation was unconstitutional‚ overthrowing the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that had set the "separate but equal" precedent. In August 1955 a case that drew the most national publicity was the murder of 14 year old Emmett Till‚ a black teenager from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi that summer
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war during the deconstruction of the new south and they help to create a racial caste system in the American South. These laws were protected by the constitution and were a form of constitutional racism. When the Supreme Court ruled on Plessy v. Ferguson the Federal Government legalized racism but under the guise of a doctrine referred to as "separate but equal". The Jim Crow laws were in place until the Supreme Court of 1954 threw them out with it’s ruling on Brown v. The Board of Education
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Cited: Cassimere Jr.‚ Raphael. "Plessy: Like As Is Plessy Vs. Ferguson." Crisis (00111422) 103.2 (1996): 17 TheHuffingtonPost.com‚ 18 Mar. 2008. Web. 03 Sept. 2012. "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow." PBS. PBS‚ 2002. Web. 26 Aug. 2012
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parks‚ many of which were poorly funded and inferior to those of whites. The challenge to segregation in schools came to the courts in the famed case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas. It challenged the previous court ruling‚ Plessy v. Ferguson‚ which upheld "the separate but equal" standard in public education. In 1954 Brown overruled Plessy and the notion of separate but equal was discredited as being separate but not equal. The court ruled that segregation was wrong but left it up
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and fifteenth (gave African men the right to vote) amendments were ratified. During 1875 the civil rights act occurred. During 1876 the Jim Crow Laws began‚ laws at the local level which preserved segregation in the south. In 1896 the Plessy vs. Ferguson case occurred‚ which the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Jim Crow laws and segregation. In 1909 the NAACP was founded to fight for Civil Rights of minorities. During 1941-1948: Roosevelt signs an executive order‚ banning discrimination in federal
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