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1. Guinn & Beal v. United States

   constitution of Oklahoma of 1910 is void because it violates the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the ... Fifteenth Amendment does not, in a general sense, take from the States the power over suffrage possessed by ... condition of servitude. While the Fifteenth Amendment gives no right of suffrage, as its command is ...

2. Guinn & Beal v. United States

   constitution of Oklahoma of 1910 is void because it violates the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the ... Fifteenth Amendment does not, in a general sense, take from the States the power over suffrage possessed by ... condition of servitude. While the Fifteenth Amendment gives no right of suffrage, as its command is ...

3. Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission

   its right to equal protection under the Fifth Amendment. Held: The FCC policies do not violate equal ... First Amendment values, and is, at the very least, an important governmental objective that is ... no one has First Amendment right to a license, and the granting of licenses requires consideration of ...

4. Reynolds v. Sims

   indicating that the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments prohibit a State from overweighting or diluting votes ... Amendment and the Alabama Constitution, voters in several Alabama counties brought suit against various ... Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and asserted that the District Court had jurisdiction under ...

5. HOLLINGSWORTH v. PERRY

   amending the State Constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Respondents, ... Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, and naming as defendants California’s ... amendment. Petitioners have no role—special or otherwise—in its enforcement. They therefore have no “personal ...

6. HOLLINGSWORTH v. PERRY

   amending the State Constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Respondents, ... Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, and naming as defendants California’s ... amendment. Petitioners have no role—special or otherwise—in its enforcement. They therefore have no “personal ...

7. STANDARD-VACUUM OIL CO. v. UNITED STATES.

   Seventh and Fifteenth claims on the ground that it appeared on the face of the amended petition that the ... had allegedly requisitioned for military purposes. On March 24, 1948, petitioner filed an amended ... petition, including for the first time the claims here involved, the Seventh and the Fifteenth. A second ...

8. Terry v. Adams

   petitioners of their right to vote on account of their race and color, contrary to the Fifteenth Amendment. P. ... violated the Fifteenth Amendment. While no state law directed such exclusion, our decision pointed out that ... their racial exclusions violate the [p463] Fifteenth Amendment. They contend that the Amendment applies ...

9. City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co.

   (1966) (similar interpretation of congressional power under § 2 of the Fifteenth Amendment). The Civil ... Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. The Federal District Court upheld the Plan in all respects, and the Court ... of the Fifth Amendment. However, on appellee's petition for certiorari in this case, this Court ...

10. UVALDE CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT et al. v. UNITED STATES

    relief could be granted. 461 F.Supp. 117 (1978). It concluded that the Fifteenth Amendment, upon which ... Fifteenth Amendment. It canvassed the various opinions in Mobile v. City of Bolden, 446 U.S. 55, 100 S.Ct. ... to the 1975 amendment of § 2. The court held that even if the Fifteenth Amendment does not proscribe ...

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