Landmark U.S. Supreme Court Case: Gideon v. Wainright
Gideon v. Wainright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963) Gideon v. Wainright, was a case involving a criminal defendant who was convicted on very little evidence due if not entirely because of the fact that he could not afford an attorney to represent him. Although at the time he was tried, there was some Supreme Court precedent [...]
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Landmark Supreme Court Cases: Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 265 (1926) Euclid v. Ambler, was a landmark decision in the area of zoning. It dealt with the city of Euclid, which enacted various zoning regulations, in order to keep certain areas of the city within certain types of use, such as [...]
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), Supreme Court Rules on Interracial Marriage Loving v. Virginia, involved a “non-white” woman and a “white” man, who fled to D.C. to be married, in order to avoid an anti-miscegenation law in Virginia, which prohibited the marrying of “whites” to “non-whites.” The crime was a felony, punishable by [...]
Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356 (1886) Yick Wo v. Hopkins, stands out as one of the most important and earliest cases in American Law that deals with racial discrimination. The case arose out of an 1880 ordinance in San Francisco, stating that no one could operate a laundry in a wooden building without [...]
This Day In History: First International Genocide Conviction
This Day In History: First International Genocide Conviction On September 2, 1998, according to an article on ushmm.org, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, established by the United Nations, issued the world’s first conviction for genocide after a trial before the tribunal. The reason this was the world’s first genocide conviction is because there was [...]
