Pace v. Alabama
Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.
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McLaughlin v. Florida rejected Pace's view that a law punishing an interracial couple equally under a special offense did not discriminate by race. The confirmed treatment is listed below.
6 later cases cite Pace v. Alabama; 6 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.
Relying on Pace v. Alabama?
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Treatments
Overruled
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The Supreme Court rejected Pace's equal protection rule and set aside convictions under a Florida law that singled out interracial couples for criminal punishment.
McLaughlin v. Florida · Supreme Court of the United States · filed
In this situation, Pace v. Alabama, supra, is relied upon as controlling authority. In our view, however, Pace represents a limited view of the Equal Protection Clause which has not withstood analysis.in the subsequent decisions of this Court. ... This narrow view of the Equal Protection Clause was soon swept away.
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