Latinos and American law landmark Supreme Court cases /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin, TX :
University of Texas Press,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10245668 |
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.