THE 1970S 1969 1979
SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE
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White v. Regester
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Wisonsin v. Yoder
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Hernandez v. Texas
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Edgewood ISD v. Kirby
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1954, in Hernandez v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the conviction of an agricultural labourer, Pete Hernandez, for murder should be overturned because Mexican Americans had been barred from participating in both the jury that indicted him and the jury that convicted him.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hernandez v. Gustavo Garcia, a Mexican-American civil-rights lawyer and University of Texas graduate (B.A. in 1936 and LL. B. in 1937), agreed to represent Hernandez in order to challenge the systematic exclusion of persons of Mexican origin from all types of jury duty in at least seventy counties in Texas.
Detailed explanation-3: -In a unanimous decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Mexican Americans-and all “classes”-were entitled to the “equal protection” articulated in the Fourteenth Amendment.
Detailed explanation-4: -13. What arguments did the state of Texas use in its response? The state argued there was no attempt to discriminate and that it was just a coincidence that no Hispanics had served on a jury in Jackson County.