A controversial memo by William Rehnquist, written while he was still a law clerk, said that the decision in this case "was right and should be reaffirmed."
A controversial memo by William Rehnquist, written while he was still a law clerk, said that the decision in this case "was right and should be reaffirmed." John Marshall Harlan was the lone dissenter in this case, while the majority opinion was written by Henry Billings Brown, and this case was tried as a result of an earlier one against Louisiana by the same plaintiff. The plaintiff in this case alleged that his 13th and 14th amendment rights were violated, and the controversy began when the plaintiff stood up on a Louisiana railroad car and announced that he was one-eighth black. For ten points, name this 1896 court case in which Melville Fuller's Supreme Court ruled 7-1 in favor of the doctrine of "separate but equal."
A controversial memo by William Rehnquist, written while he was still a law clerk, said that the decision in this case "was right and should be reaffirmed."
Homer A. {Plessy} v. Ferguson