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South Carolina v. Katzenbach, 383 U.S. 301 (1966), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that rejected a challenge from the state of South Carolina to the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which required that some states submit changes in election districts to the Attorney General of the United States (at the time, Nicholas Katzenbach). [1]
Prior to the civil rights movement in South Carolina, African Americans in the state had very few political rights. South Carolina briefly had a majority-black government during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, but with the 1876 inauguration of Governor Wade Hampton III, a Democrat who supported the disenfranchisement of blacks, African Americans in South Carolina struggled to ...
South Carolina v. Catawba Indian Tribe, Inc. , 476 U.S. 498 (1986), is an important U.S. Supreme Court precedent for aboriginal title in the United States decided in the wake of County of Oneida v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York State (Oneida II) (1985).
Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for rape of an adult woman when the victim is not killed.; Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for a person who is a minor participant in a felony and does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend to kill.
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A date for a parole hearing has been set for convicted murderer Susan Smith more than 30 years after her two young sons were killed. On Monday, the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole ...
ESPN’s Football Power Index gives South Carolina a 34.3% chance to win the game. Point spread for USC Gamecocks vs. OU Sooners The Gamecocks are a 1.5-point underdog against the Sooners ...
Case name Citation Date decided Skipper v. South Carolina: 476 U.S. 1: 1986: McLaughlin v. United States: 476 U.S. 16: 1986: EEOC v. FLRA: 476 U.S. 19: 1986: Turner v.