Racial Discrimination

An employer may not terminate an employee or take other adverse job action because of race or color. Work rules must be applied uniformly to all employees, regardless of color or race. Policies that have a disproportionately adverse impact on minorities are strictly prohibited. Learn whether your employer has violated Title VII or other laws. Let attorney Peter LaSorsa protect your rights.

Below is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving race discrimination.

  • Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)
    The Court upheld the conviction of an American of Japanese descent who had been prosecuted for remaining in California after a 1942 presidential order designating much of the west coast a "military area", and requiring relocation of most Japanese-Americans from California.
  • Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
    The United States Supreme Court ruled property deeds which had language about race were not constitutional. Prior to this case, especially in southern states, there was language about whites only owning the property and many minorities including blacks where prohibited from owning property.
  • Brown v. Board of Education II (1955)
    This case implemented the Court's ruling in the previous Brown case and allowed for the government to quickly implement desegregation."
  • Bailey v. Patterson (1962)
    The Court rules that hotels, restaurants on the interstate and intrastate highway systems and other transportation facilities were prohibited from discriminating against minorities. 
  • Loving v. Virginia (1967)
    The United States Supreme Court invalidated any state law which banned inter-racial marriage.
  • Lau v. Nichols (1973)
    The Court held that a city school system's failure to provide English language instruction to students of Chinese ancestry amounted to unlawful discrimination.
  • Batson v. Kentucky (1986)
    The Court holds that a state denies an African-American defendant equal protection when it puts him on trial before a jury from which members of his race have been purposefully excluded. 
  • Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
    A law school's limited "affirmative action" use of race in admissions is constitutional.

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