Plessy vs. Ferguson

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Whitney Borup
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
District Court ◽  
United States Supreme ◽  
Legal Decision ◽  
Court Judge ◽  
Legal Power ◽  
John Howard

Plessy vs. Ferguson is a legal decision made by the United States Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of ‘separate but equal’ laws popular in the post-Civil War South. In June 1892 Homer Plessy, a man with one-eighth African blood, was arrested for violating Louisiana’s ‘equal but separate’ clause when he sat in a railway car designated for white passengers. Louisiana district court judge, Justice John Howard Ferguson, upheld the arrest, claiming a state had the legal power to regulate railroads operating within its borders.

Legally Protected Interests of the Abducted Alleged Offender

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 339-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otto Lagodny
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
District Court ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
United States Supreme ◽  
Criminal Behaviour ◽  
Adverse Consequence

Professor S. Z. Feller, to whom this article respectfully is dedicated, wrote a critical attack on the problem of concurrent criminal jurisdiction. The adverse consequence of more than one state claiming jurisdiction over a given criminal behaviour may be the abduction of the alleged offender by officials of one of these states. This issue was recently raised in the United States Supreme Court in theAlvarez-Machaincase. Chief Justice Rehnquist's holding allowing a U.S. court to try Dr. Alvarez-Machain, who was abducted by U.S. authorities, caused vehement national and international criticism. Subsequently, the United States District Court of Los Angeles acquitted Dr. Alvarez-Machain on 14 December 1992.The long list of abduction cases of recent history, together with the absence of a satisfying solution are alarming. I shall not attempt to cut this “Gordan's knot”, but rather shall focus on an issue that has as yet not been clearly addressed in the current debate.

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