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To: Abundy
Jones v Mayer, 1968

In this second landmark case, the United States Supreme Court went far beyond the decision in Shelley v Kraemer which had limited only the state's enforcement of restrictive covenants. In Jones v Mayer, the Supreme Court determined that the Mayer Company, developers of a private subdivision in St. Louis could not deny the Jones family the opportunity to purchase a home based solely on Mr. Jone's race. Justice Stevens decision for the Supreme Court held that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Thirteenth Amendment include "the freedom to buy whatever a white man can buy, the right to live wherever a white man can live. If Congress cannot say that being a free man means at least this much, then the Thirteenth Amendment made a promise the Nation cannot keep."

A more detailed review can be found here

69 posted on 12/23/2002 10:18:25 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: Teacher317
Which case was the one that reasoned that because a plaintiff had to go to Court to enforce a covenant that was sufficient "state action" to implicate the Constitution.

And after reading the review you linked it is clear to me that the First Amendment is dead in many ways.

To tell me that there is a government-approved list of reaons for refusing a purchaser for my home is not what the Founders envisioned when they penned the Constitution...

71 posted on 12/23/2002 10:58:48 AM PST by Abundy
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