Latinos and American law : landmark Supreme Court cases / Carlos R. Soltero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soltero, Carlos R., 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Supreme Court--History.

United States.

Hispanic Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--Cases.

Hispanic Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 Latinos, creating a complex terrain of power relations between the U.S. government and the country's now-largest ethnic minority. To map this legal landscape, Latinos and American Law examines fourteen landmark Supreme Court cases that have significantly affected Latino rights, from Botiller v. Dominguez in 1889 to Alexander v. Sandoval in 2001."-from Amazon.com

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-222) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79575-0

OCLC:

614555996