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Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr. (February 5, 1925 – September 21, 2008) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas and counsel to President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was best known for overseeing the lawsuit to desegregate the ...
None. Litigation. Three lawsuits filed by Mohamed's family; all dismissed. On September 14, 2015, then 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, for bringing a disassembled digital clock to school. The incident ignited allegations of racial profiling and Islamophobia from many media sources and commentators.
Family rights. Recognition of relationships. Same-sex marriage since 2015 [3] Adoption. Yes. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Texas have some protections in state law but may face legal and social challenges not faced by others. Same-sex sexual activity was decriminalized in Texas in 2003 by the Lawrence v. Texas ruling.
Hazelwood School District et al. v. Kuhlmeier et al., 484 U.S. 260 (1988), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which held, in a 5–3 decision, that student speech in a school-sponsored student newspaper at a public high school could be censored by school officials without a violation of First Amendment rights if the school's actions were "reasonably related" to a ...
DISD Human Development Office. The Dallas Independent School District ( Dallas ISD or DISD) is a school district based in Dallas, Texas ( USA ). It operates schools in much of Dallas County and is the second-largest school district in Texas and the seventeenth-largest in the United States. It is also known as Dallas Public Schools ( DPS ).
Delgado V. Bastrop Independent School District [1] was a Federal Circuit court case based out of Bastrop county that ruled against the segregation of Mexican-Americans in the public schools of Texas. The court's decision was argued on the standpoint of the Mendez et al. v. Westminster et al. court case and lack of Texas law for segregation of ...
Del Rio ISD v. Salvatierra is a Texas Supreme Court ruling filed in 1930. Background. The ruling sought to determine whether or not segregated schools for Hispanics were necessary. It ruled calling for the segregation of Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics into three separate school systems. It was later overturned by Delgado v. Bastrop ISD.
Ken Paxton. Warren Kenneth Paxton Jr. [2] (born December 23, 1962) is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the attorney general of Texas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the Texas Senate representing the eighth district and as a member of the Texas House of Representatives .