Legal Opinion
Tyler v. Harmon
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided March 2, 1925No. 26948PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, C. J.
The question in this case is whether an ordinance of the city of New Orleans, providing for segregation of the residences of white and colored persons, violates the Pourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of 'the United States.
The ordinance is numbered 8037 and is in seven sections. The first section forbids the city engineer to issue a building permit for the construction of a residence for a negro in a “white community” or for a white person in a “negro community,” without the written consent of a majority of the persons of the opposite race inhabiting the “community, or portion of the…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Plessy v. FergusonSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Ex Parte VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Hadacheck v. SebastianSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Virginia v. RivesSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
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3Cited by17 opinions
- United States v. City of JacksonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963
- Carl L. Baldwin and Alexinia Baldwin v. J. W. MorganCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1961
- City of Birmingham v. MonkCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1951
- Meade v. DennistoneCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1938
- Beer v. United StatesDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1974
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