Supreme Court Cases Essay

According to the Supreme Court from multiple cases, it matters what a person's race is. Therefore, many cases have been based off of skin color. There used to be and still are people who fight for inequality and equality. Over the years the supreme court has made many decisions that impact and have impacted civil rights: Shelley vs. Kraemer, Loving vs. Virginia, and Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. The Shelley vs. Kraemer case has to do with the Shelley's, a black family, bought a house in a neighborhood that signed a covenant. The covenant stated that no black or asian person was allowed to buy property in that neighborhood for fifty years. Thirty out of thirty-nine signed this covenant. The parcel owners signed that covenant in 1911, the Shelley's bought the house in 1945, therefore this neighborhood had been like this for 35 years, in addition, this case went on for three years ending in 1948. Eventually the parcel owners won the case therefore, the Shelley's lost …show more content…
This is the 1967 Loving v. Virginia case. Basically, the state laws were questioned when it came to interracial marriages, the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia said that if there was any interracial marriages both partners would be punished the same so the laws and the state considered it equal and did not go against or break any laws like the Equal Protection Clause, even though it technically did by not letting white or black couples marry. A part of the case was the fact that marriage is a fundamental right.mAnother thing is in Virginia it was only illegal if a white person was involved in a interracial marriage. It is a shame Virginia banned a fundamental right just because of skin color, some people in the world are just full of ignorance, too ignorant to accept that everyone is equal and deserves to love who they