Buchanan v. Warley
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| Buchanan v. Warley | ||||||||||
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| Argued April 10–11, 1916 Reargued April 27, 1917 Decided November 5, 1917 |
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| Chief Justice: Edward Douglass White Associate Justices: Joseph McKenna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William R. Day, Willis Van Devanter, Mahlon Pitney, James Clark McReynolds, Louis Brandeis, John Hessin Clarke |
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| Majority by: Day |
Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U.S. 60 (1917) was a unanimous United States Supreme Court decision addressing racial segregation in residential areas. The Court held that a Louisville, Kentucky ordinance requiring residential segregation based on race violated the Fourteenth Amendment. Unlike prior state court rulings that had overturned racial zoning ordinances on takings clause grounds due to those ordinances' failures to grandfather land owned prior to enactment, the Court in Buchanan ruled that motive, race, for the Louisville ordinance was an insufficient purpose to make the law constitutional.[1]
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[edit] References
- ^ Silver, Christopher (1997). "The Racial Origins of Zoning in American Cities", in Thomas, J. M.; Ritzdorf, M.: Urban Planning & the African American Community: In the Shadows. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publ.. ISBN 0803972334.
[edit] Further reading
- Nelson, Arthur C.; Dawkins, Casey J.; Sanchez, Thomas W. (2004). "Urban Containment and Residential Segregation: A Preliminary Investigation". Urban Studies 41 (2): 423–439. doi:.
- Rice, Roger L. (1968). "Residential Segregation by Law, 1910-1917". Journal of Southern History 34 (2): 179–199. doi:.
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