Journal of Appellate Practice and Process articles from March 2004

Journal of Appellate Practice and Process archives from March 2004

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process: from the Supreme Court. (text of Brown v. Board of Education)
March 22, 2004... BROWN ET AL. V. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TOPEKA ET AL. * NO. 1. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS Argued December 9, 1952.--Reargued December 8, 1953.--Decided May 17, 1954. MR. CHIEF JUSTICE...

Introduction: Brown in the Supreme Court.
March 22, 2004... May 17, 1954. Almost fifty years ago, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Brown v. Board of Education, (1) and held unanimously that in the field of education separate but equal has no place. It did not overrule Plessy v. Ferguson,...

Reflections on Brown.
March 22, 2004... We celebrate the anniversary of a great moment in our legal history. Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court changed our law bearing on race relations. (1) It did not, however, directly change the society that had made that law, nor did it much...

Voices of the Brown generation: description of a project.
March 22, 2004... I am one of the reasons for the Brown litigation. In 1954, I was enrolled in the fourth grade in the Berkeley County Training School in Moncks Corner, South Carolina. The Berkeley County Training School was the public school that educated all...

Enforcing Brown in the Little Rock crisis.
March 22, 2004... In modern America no issue revealed more explicitly the compromise of aspirations than the desegregation of public schools. The Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education declared as a fundamental value "separate educational facilities are...

Back to basics: returning to the matter of black inferiority and white supremacy in the post-Brown era.
March 22, 2004... Except among recent law students, Brown v. Board of Education (1) is better remembered for what it did (namely reject Plessy v. Ferguson's (2) doctrine of "separate but equal") than the grounds on which it did it. The Court in Brown considered...

Litigation campaigns and the search for constitutional rules.
March 22, 2004... This Journal's focus on appellate practice and procedure suggests that it might be appropriate and productive to take a somewhat unusual approach to Brown (1) and its significance. Brown was most important, of course, for its role in the...

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process: symposium discussion.
March 22, 2004... The following is an edited transcript of the discussion that took place during the afternoon session of "Fifty Years Later: Brown in the Appellate Courts," a Journal-sponsored symposium held on April 2, 2004, at the University of Arkansas at...

A time to lose.(lawyer Paul E. Wilson representing Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education)
March 22, 2004... A TIME TO LOSE I wish I had thought of that title, but it was Paul Wilson who chose it for his book about representing the state of Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education. (1) In this installment of From The Library, he explains how he got...

Speech on Brown v. Board of Education, May 1, 1981.(Paul E. Wilson)(Transcript)
March 22, 2004... Each spring for the past few years Professor Wilson spoke at the noon forum on his involvement in Brown v. Board of Education. Each year the talk grew more popular. The text below is a near verbatim transcription of last spring's talk. It would...