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Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right to have an abortion prior to the point of fetal viability.
In a 2015 TIME interview of over 50 legal scholars, University of California, Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Cornell Law Professor Steven Shiffrin both named Rodriguez the "worst Supreme Court decision since 1960," with Chemerinsky noting that the decision has "played a major role in creating the separate and unequal schools ...
March 23, 1972 – Delaware and New Hampshire ratify the ERA. [4] March 24, 1972 – Idaho and Iowa ratify the ERA. [4] March 28, 1972 – Kansas ratifies the ERA. [4] March 29, 1972 – Nebraska ratifies the ERA. [4] March 30, 1972 – Texas ratifies the ERA. [4] April 4, 1972 – Tennessee ratifies the ERA. [4] April 5, 1972 – Alaska ...
Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003) A Texas law that criminalizes consensual same-sex sexual conduct furthers no legitimate state interest and violates homosexuals' right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This decision invalidates all of the remaining sodomy laws in the United States. Goodridge v.
Case history; Prior: Sindermann v. Perry, 430 F.2d 939 (5th Cir. 1970), cert. granted, 403 U.S. 917 (1971).: Holding; Lack of a contractual or tenure right to re-employment, taken alone, did not defeat respondent's claim that the nonrenewal of his contract violated his free speech right under the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
Proposition 8 was a referendum for a state constitutional amendment placed on the ballot by the Texas legislature and approved by the voters at the November 7, 1972 general election. The measure amended sections 4, 22, and 23 of the Texas Constitution, changing the length of the terms of statewide elected offices in Texas from two years to four ...
Texas had twenty-four seats in the House, up one from the 1960s, apportioned according to the 1970 United States census. [1] Texas Democrats maintained their governmental trifecta after the 1970 elections. [2] This gave the Democrats full control over the redistricting process. [3] The Texas Legislature enacted its redistricting plan in 1971. [4]
Education Amendments of 1972; Long title: An Act to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, the General Education Provisions Act (creating a National Foundation for Postsecondary Education and a National Institute of Education), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, and related Acts, and for other purposes.