Latinos and American law : landmark Supreme Court cases

Latinos and American law : landmark Supreme Court cases / Carlos R. Soltero.

To achieve justice and equal protection under the law, Latinos have turned to the U.S. court system to assert and defend their rights. Some of these cases have reached the United States Supreme Court, whose rulings over more than a century have both expanded and restricted the legal rights of Latino...

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Main Author: Soltero, Carlos R., 1969- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court > History.
United States. > Supreme Court
USA > Supreme Court
Hispanic Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > Cases.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
LAW > Legal History.
Hispanic Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Rechtsfall
United States
Hispanos.
History
Trials, litigation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Botiller v. Dominguez (1889), Mexican land grants, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • Balzac v. Porto [sic] Rico (1922), the insular cases (1901) and Puerto Rico's status in the American legal system
  • Hernandez v. Texas (1954) and the exclusion of Mexican-Americans from grand juries
  • Katzenbach v. Morgan (1966) and voting rights of Puerto Ricans with limited english proficiency
  • Miranda v. Arizona (1966) and the rights of the criminally accused
  • San Antonio ISD v. Rodriguez (1973) and the search for equality in school funding
  • Espinoza v. Farah Mfg. Co. (1973) and "national origin" discrimination in employment
  • United States v. Brignoni-Ponce (1975), law and order on the border
  • Plyler v. Doe (1982) and educating children of illegal aliens
  • INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca (1987), refugees, and political asylum
  • U.S. v. Verdugo-Urquidez (1990) and limits to the applicability of the Bill of Rights geographically and as to only "the people"
  • Hernandez v. New York (1991) and the exclusion of bilingual jurors
  • Johnson v. Degrandy (1994), Cuban-Americans, and voting rights in the American legal system
  • Alexander v. Sandoval (2001), title VI, and the court's refusal to consider the validity of English-only laws or rules.

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