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Latinos and American Law : : Landmark Supreme Court Cases / / Carlos R. Soltero.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Soltero, Carlos R.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2006
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • A. The Fuller Court (1888 – 1910)
  • 1. Botiller v. Dominguez (1889), Mexican Land Grants, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • B. The Taft Court (1921– 1930)
  • 2. Balzac v. Porto [sic] Rico (1922), the Insular Cases (1901), and Puerto Rico’s Status in the American Legal System
  • C. The Warren Court (1953 – 1969)
  • 3. Hernandez v. Texas (1954) and the Exclusion of Mexican-Americans from Grand Juries
  • 4. Katzenbach v. Morgan (1966) and Voting Rights of Puerto Ricans with Limited English Proficiency
  • 5. Miranda v. Arizona (1966) and the Rights of the Criminally Accused
  • D. The Burger Court (1969 – 1986)
  • 6. San Antonio ISD v. Rodriguez (1973) and the Search for Equality in School Funding
  • 7. Espinoza v. Farah Mfg. Co. (1973) and “National Origin” Discrimination in Employment
  • 8. United States v. Brignoni-Ponce (1975), Law and Order on the Border
  • 9. Plyler v. Doe (1982) and Educating Children of Illegal Aliens
  • E. The Rehnquist Court (1986 – 2005)
  • 10. INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca (1987), Refugees, and Political Asylum
  • 11. U.S. v. Verdugo-Urquidez (1990) and Limits to the Applicability of the Bill of Rights Geographically and as to Only “The People”
  • 12. Hernandez v. New York (1991) and the Exclusion of Bilingual Jurors
  • 13. Johnson v. DeGrandy (1994), Cuban-Americans, and Voting Rights in the American Legal System
  • 14. Alexander v. Sandoval (2001), Title VI, and the Court’s Refusal to Consider the Validity of English-Only Laws or Rules
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • List of Cases
  • Cases Mentioned
  • General Index

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