Tag: Fourteenth Amendment

New York and New Jersey are currently imposing mandatory quarantines to stop the spread of Ebola. The U.S. Supreme first recognized the authority of the states to exercise their police power to protect the public health in 1905. The case, Jacobson v....

As the Supreme Court prepares to consider the legality of same-sex unions, it is important to look back at the Court’s last blockbuster decision on marriage. In Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage ...

On Thursday, May 18 it was 58 years since the U.S. Supreme Court held in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.  While that case led to a national policy of school d...

The use of race in college admissions has been a controversial constitutional law issue for over thirty years. What Americans have come to know as “affirmative active” may change later this year when the U. S. Supreme Court considers the issue ag...

GRISWOLD V. CONNECTICUT APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF ERRORS OF CONNECTICUT No. 496 Argued: March 29-30, 1965 --- Decided: June 7, 1965 Cite as: 381 U.S. 479 MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellant Griswold is E...