Due process 4 Flashcards
Suspect classifications
Classifications of people on the basis of their race or ethnic city
Strict scrutiny
The Supreme Court test to see if a law denies equal protection because it does not serve a compelling state interest and is not nearly Taylor to achieve that goal
Plessy versus Ferguson
Upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal
Brown versus Board of Education
Court declared state laws astonishing separate public schools for black-and-white students to be unconstitutional
Swan versus Charlotte Mecklenburg
Court case dealing with the busing of students to promote integration in public schools. Court held that busing was an appropriate remedy for the problem of racial imbalance in schools, even when the inbounds resulted from the selection of students based on geographic proximity to the school rather than the deliberate assignment based on race.- defacto segregation
What was busing
The practice of assigning and transporting students to schools in such a manner as to redress prior racial segregation of schools or to overcome the effects of residential segregation on local school demographics
What is de facto Segregatiln
Rasul segregation especially in public schools that happens by facts rather than by legal requirement. For example often the concentration of African-Americans in certain neighborhoods produces neighborhood schools that are predominantly black or segregated in fact
What is de jure
Segregation bylaw
United States versus Virginia
Supreme Court of the United States struck down the Virginia military Institute’s long-standing mail only policy because the girl school wasn’t entirely equal and they had to admit women
Affirmative action
Prefers to admission policies that provide equal access to education for those groups that have been historically excluded or underrepresented such as women and minorities
Bob Jones University versus US
Court found that the IRS was correct in its decision to rebook the tax exempt status of Bob Jones University because these institutions did not meet the requirement by providing beneficial and stabilizing influence is in community life to be supported by taxpayers. And because of their discriminatory policies
Not all burdens on religion or unconstitutional
university of California versus Bakke
Or 16 spots set aside for my Nordie’s butt back he got better grades so he complained about reverse racism
Court upheld that race can be a factor in college administration but can’t solicit specific spots for minorities
Grutter v bollinger
Upheld affirmative action can’t use a point system to record minorities Race is a factor but not the only factor
PGA tour versus Martin
Supreme Court ruled that they have to let him play because they opened up the torch the public therefore they have to permit equal opportunity
Shelley versus Kramer
Can deny selling to blacks but it’s an enforceable
