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Supreme Court· 6/20/1966

Georgia v. Rachel

Citations

  • 384 U.S. 780
  • 86 S. Ct. 1783
  • 16 L. Ed. 2d 925
  • 1966 U.S. LEXIS 2810

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • construing “equal civil rights” in § 1443 to mean federal laws that specifically guarantee racial equality
  • referring to the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
  • “The legislative history of the 1866 Act clearly indicates that Congress intended to protect a limited category of rights”
  • “The legislative history of the 1866 Act clearly indicates that Congress intended to protect a limited category of rights”
  • “When the Revised Statutes were compiled, the substantive and removal provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 were carried forward in separate sections.”
  • removal is warranted only if it can be predicted that a law of general application will deny a defendant a specified federal right

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Judges: Stewart, Douglas, Brennan, Fortas

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Cites

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