Buchanan v. Warley | |||||||
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Argued April 10–11, 1916 Reargued April 27, 1917 Decided November 5, 1917 |
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Full case name | Buchanan v. Warley | ||||||
Citations | 245 U.S. 60 (more)
38 S. Ct. 16; 62 L. Ed. 149; 1917 U.S. LEXIS 1788
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Louisville, Kentucky ordinance compelling racial segregation of residential housing was unconstitutional in respect to the Fourteenth Amendment | |||||||
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Majority | Day, joined by unanimous | ||||||
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U.S. Const. amend. XIV |
Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U.S. 60 (1917), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court addressed civil government instituted racial segregation in residential areas. The Court held that a Louisville, Kentucky, city ordinance prohibiting the sale of real property to blacks violated the Fourteenth Amendment, which protected freedom of contract, reversing the ruling of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Unlike prior state court rulings that had overturned racial zoning ordinances on takings clause grounds due to those ordinances' failures to grandfather land owned prior to enactment, the Court in Buchanan ruled that the motive for the Louisville ordinance, race, was an insufficient purpose to make the prohibition constitutional.[1]
See also
- African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954)
- List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 245
References
Further reading
- Bernstein, David E. Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform. Chapter 5. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. ISBN 0-226-04353-3
- Nelson, Arthur C.; Dawkins, Casey J.; Sanchez, Thomas W. (2004). "Urban Containment and Residential Segregation: A Preliminary Investigation". Urban Studies 41 (2): 423–439. doi:10.1080/0042098032000165325.
- Rice, Roger L. (1968). "Residential Segregation by Law, 1910-1917". Journal of Southern History (The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 34, No. 2) 34 (2): 179–199. doi:10.2307/2204656. JSTOR 2204656.