Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and forth to desegregated schools in cities across the United States. ... City School of Gary, Indiana, 1964 v/s In a decision which attracted much attention, the court refused to review a lower court decision which upheld de facto segregation on the grounds that policies of government were not involved. ...
The electric chair was first used on August 6, 1890, to execute William Kemmler of Buffalo, New York. ... New York later reinstated the death penalty law with death by lethal injection. ... Grasso had admitted to killing two elderly people over a six-month period of time in Oklahoma and in New York City. ... On July 3, 1991, Grasso robbed and strangled Leslie Holtz of New York City. ... The New York court sentenced him to 20 years to life and th...
To deal with this problem, newspapers appealed to the masses for support with clothing and with shoes, and soup kitchens were established in cities to help feed the homeless and the poor. ... The Erie Canal was constructed out of New York City and linked the east coast further inland than ever before. ...
Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, in which the constitutions of several Pennsylvania state regulations regarding abortion were challenged. The Court's plurality opinion (an opinion by a group of judges, usually an appellate...
In January of 1973, the United States Supreme Court decided on the case of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705, 35 L.Ed.2d 147. The Decision made by the United States Supreme Court gave every woman a federal constitutional right to an abortion. Since that decision in 1973, the issue of abortion has been at the center of much controversy and has left many Americans divided over the issue of abortion. As the legal scholar Ronald Oworkin once said, "No judicial decision in our time has aroused as much sustained public outrage, emotion, and physical violence or as much intemperate professi...
The US Supreme Court: Sexually Motivated? Following the defeat of Germany and Japan during World War II the United States almost immediately became burdened with another challenge, that of, containing their former ally, the Soviet Union. Known as the Cold War, this conflict inspired tremendou...
THURGOOD MARSHALL During the 20th century I have read many books, newspaper articles and seen news broadcasts on two of the most famous Afro American Pioneers: Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall. Martin Luther King fought all his life for equal rights for Afro Americans, but Thurgood Marsha...
