3 – Fair Housing Court Cases – Equal Rights Code
1948: Shelley v. Kraemer The Supreme Court found that while racially-based restrictive covenants are not themselves unconstitutional, enforcement of the covenants is: Private parties may voluntarily adhere to the racially-based restrictive covenant State enforcement of racially-based restrictive covenants, however, is discriminatory as it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment Challenging Racially-Based Covenants […]