Civil Rights case
1. Find the caes which overturned Florida criminal statute which prohibited an unmarried interracial couple from habitually living in and occupying the same room in the nighttime. Hint this is a Civil Rights case - and which court do you think finally heard this matter?
2. use whichever search engine or method to find this case.
3. Give the complete case citation - i.e. Name of parties, volume number, name of case reporter, page number (date case decided) - The case citation should look something like this - Dillon v Legg (1968) 55 Cal. App 4th 622
4. State the name of the party who won the case - i.e. the actual name - not "plaintiff"
5. Give the Court rule (in your own words) - use the "key legal words" used by the court in deciding the case - or the key "case precedent" - if it used an earlier case in deciding this case
6. Give the reasoning or rationale of the court used in resolving the case (in your own words)
now post your work under "assignments" in moodle classroom.
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