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Hernandez v. Texas. Hernandez v. Texas, 347 U.S. 475 (1954), was a landmark case, "the first and only Mexican-American civil-rights case heard and decided by the United States Supreme Court during the post-World War II period." [1] In a unanimous ruling, the court held that Mexican Americans and all other nationality groups in the United States ...
Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, 593 U.S. 522 (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with litigation over discrimination of local regulations based on the Free Exercise Clause and Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The specific case deals with a religious-backed foster care agency that ...
Ricci v. DeStefano, 557 U.S. 557 (2009), is a United States labor law case of the United States Supreme Court on unlawful discrimination through disparate impact under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Twenty city firefighters at the New Haven Fire Department, [1] nineteen white and one Hispanic, passed the test for promotion to a management ...
Sep. 29—SCRANTON — A Hispanic woman from Lackawanna County filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Salvation Army, claiming an employee at the nonprofit organization's thrift store in ...
Both parties are paying attention to this battleground state's growing number of Latino voters. In 2020, Joe Biden won the state by 80,000 votes; that same year, more than 610,000 Latinos were ...
In August 2018, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission interpreted existing state law covering sex discrimination as including the categories of sexual orientation and gender identity, effectively banning discrimination against LGBTQ people in employment, housing, education, and public accommodation. [1] On June 15, 2020, in Bostock v.
In the United States, many U.S. states historically had anti-miscegenation laws which prohibited interracial marriage and, in some states, interracial sexual relations. Some of these laws predated the establishment of the United States, and some dated to the later 17th or early 18th century, a century or more after the complete racialization of ...
Back story: Prosecutor's memo said Hispanics get tougher plea deals; state attorney calls it a mistake Aftermath: State Attorney open to reviewing cases, plea bargain rules after 'racism policy ...