Reenacting discriminatory laws
Maria Carmen Morin-Moreno v. United States
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Maria Carmen Morin-Moreno’s case comes from the Ninth Circuit and raises whether a legislature can cure a law’s original racially discriminatory purpose by reenacting or amending it without addressing that purpose.
- Who it affects
- Morin-Moreno’s request for Supreme Court review ended, but the Court issued no decision on the legal question.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The dispute came from the Ninth Circuit and concerns whether later reenactment or amendment can cure a law’s original racially discriminatory purpose.
Question presented
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment and amendment when the law was originally adopted for an impermissible discriminatory purpose.
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