Nullification of State Court Judgments under the Civil Rights Act: Federal Jurisdiction. Civil Rights. Review of State Court Decisions

1963 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 555
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
State Court ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Civil Rights Act ◽  
Federal Jurisdiction

scholarly journals In the Beginning There Was None: Supreme Court Review of State Criminal Prosecutions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin C. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Federal Court ◽  
Structural Relationship ◽  
State Court ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Court System ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Federal Judiciary ◽  
Federal Jurisdiction ◽  
In The Beginning

This Article challenges the unquestioned assumption of all contemporary scholars of federal jurisdiction that section 25 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 authorized Supreme Court appellate review of state criminal prosecutions. Section 25 has long been thought to be one of the most important provisions of the most important jurisdictional statute enacted by Congress. The Judiciary Act of 1789 gave concrete institutional shape to a federal judiciary only incompletely defined by Article III. And section 25 supplied a key piece of the structural relationship between the previously existing state court systems and the new federal court system that Congress constructed with the Act. It provided for Supreme Court appellate review of certain state court decisions denying the federal-law-based rights of certain litigants.

scholarly journals Attitudes towards LGBT individuals after Bostock v. Clayton County: Evidence from a quasi-experiment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Phase 2 ◽  
Lgbt Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Act ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Evangelical Protestants ◽  
Lgbt Individuals

Do United States Supreme Court decisions on LGBT rights shape attitudes towards LGBT individuals among the mass public? In this paper, I conduct an empirical test of the effect of quasi-random exposure to the announcment of \textit{Bostock v. Clayton County} - a landmark case which held that that an employer who fires their employee because of their sexual orientation or gender identity violates Section VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act - on favorability towards LGBT individuals. Relying on data from Phase 2 of the Democracy Fund/UCLA Nationscape survey, I find that quasi-random exposure to the announcement of \textit{Bostock} engendered increases in favorability towards LGBT individuals among the wider American public. Subgroup analyses also indicate that the largest increases in favorability were among Democratic partisans and the religiously unaffiliated, while minimal changes in favorability were detected among those who are among the most likely to oppose LGBT rights, including Republicans and Evangelical Protestants. The findings speak to the validity of the legitimacy model and highlight the limitations of the backlash model in the post-\textit{Obergefell} era of public opinion towards LGBT rights.

Civil Rights Act of 1991

1991 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
T.F. Riggar ◽  
Dennis Maki ◽  
Carl Flowers
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Civil Rights Act ◽  
Supreme Court Decisions

Provides a synopsis of the findings and purposes of the new Civil Rights Act of 1991. The intent of the Act and an analysis of the seven Supreme Court decisions which the new law overrules are provided. Relevant civil rights laws, rules, and regulations are outlined.

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