Talk:Civil Rights Cases/Archive 1

Archive 1

Struck link to Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores

There was no reason to link this article to the above case, regardless of your opinion about that case. This article is about a Supreme Court decision that struck down the original Reconstruction-era Civil Rights Acts; Dukes, like most other modern-day employment discrimination cases, arose under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As this article correctly points out, there is a major distinction between the laws struck down by this case and modern civil rights laws: While these laws were purportedly based upon the 14th Amendment directly, the main parts of the 1964 Act derive their authority from the Commerce Clause, and thus have been held constitutional without affecting this case. --RBBrittain 04:21, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Removed comment saying cases are now regarded as wrongly decided

The intro ended with this sentence: “The cases are today regarded as wrongly decided, a symbol of institutional racism and judicial opposition to democracy, and incompatible with the US Constitution.” Regarded by some maybe, but not by all. In fact the article rightly notes that the decisions have never been overturned and were in fact reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in 2000. John P. McCaskey (talk) 15:19, 9 September 2016 (UTC)