Civil Rights
May 30, 2024
Celebrating the centennial of a civil rights victory
The Piper case challenged a statute that authorized school districts to exclude Native American children from public schools and compel them to attend federal schools. The court struck down the statute as unconstitutional, but only on the narrow ground that the state could not delegate its educational function to the federal government.
David S. Ettinger
Of Counsel, Horvitz & Levy LLP
David S. Ettinger is of counsel at the appellate law firm Horvitz & Levy and is the primary writer for AtTheLectern.com, the firm's blog about the California Supreme Court. He serves on the board of directors of the California Supreme Court Historical Society.
America recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. But there’s another Supreme Court school desegregation decision, one by California’s high court, that is also marking a milestone worth noting. Piper v. Big Pine School District (1924) 193 Cal. 664 is 100 years old this Sunday.
The Piper court ruled in favor of a 15-year-old Nat...
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