Civil Rights Flashcards
Upheld separate but equal facilities for white and black people on railroad cars
Plessy v Ferguson
Said that separate public schools are inherently unequal thus starting racial desegregation
Brown v Board of Education
Banned a freedom of choice plan for integrating schools, suggesting that blacks and whites must actually attend racially mixed schools
Green v County School Board of New Kent County
Approved busing and redrawing district lines as ways of integrating public schools
Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg BOE
Gender discrimination violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution
Reed v Reed
Gender discrimination can only be justified if it serves “important governmental objectives” and be “substantially related to those objectives”
Craig v Boren
Congress can draft men without drafting women
Rostker v Goldberg
State may not finance an all-male military school
United States v Virginia
Found a “right to privacy” in the Constitution that would ban any state law against selling contraceptives
Griswold v Connecticut
State laws against abortion were unconstitutional
Roe v Wade
Allowed states to ban abortions from public hospitals and permitted doctors to test to see if fetuses were viable
Webster v reproductive health services
Reaffirmed Roe v Wade but upheld certain limits on its use
Planned Parenthood v Casey
States may not ban partial-birth abortions if they failed to allow an exception to protect the health of the mother
Stenberg v Carhart
Despite the ban on racial classifications in the 1964 Civil Rights Act, this case upheld the use of race in an employment agreement between the steelworkers union and steel plant
United Steelworkers v Weber
In a confused set of rival opinions, the decisive vote was cast by Justice Powell, who said that a quota like ban on Bakke’s admission was unconstitutional but that “diversity” was a legitimate goal that could be pursued by taking race into account
Regents of the University of Cal v Bakke
