Library Research Guide to Asian & Latino Immigration Since WW II                  California State University, Long Beach University Library

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   Local or state propositions are primary documents regardless of whether or not they were approved by the electorate.

To view California Ballot Propositions back to 1884 use the California Ballot Propositions, Los Angeles County Law Library.

Selected propositions of interest

Proposition 187 (1994)           Proposition 209  (1996)        Proposition 227 (1998)

Law & Legal Cases

There are two databases that will provide access to key legal cases and state and federal laws.  They are:

WestLaw Campus Research
Full text access to federal and state case law, statutes, regulations and administrative codes, as well as, European Union information, law encyclopedias, law reviews and citators.

Lexis Nexis Academic
Full text access to l federal and state legal materials (laws, court reporters, law digests) go back to 1799.
 

Selected immigration cases of interest

California ’s Constitution of 1879                                          Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Yick Wo v. Hopkins (U.S. Supreme Court, 1886)                   Page Law (Federal Statute, 1875)

Scott Act (Federal Statute, 1888)                                         Cable Act (Federal Statute, 1922)

Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924                                           California ’s Alien Land Law of 1913

Ozawa v. United States (U.S. Supreme Court, 1922)              Perez v. Sharp (CA Supreme Court, 1948)

Oyama v. United States (U.S. Supreme Court, 1918)              Loving v. Virginia (U.S. Supreme Court, 1967)

Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934 (Federal Statute)                      Civil Liberties Act of 1988 ( U.S. Statute)

H.R. 2297 (2003)  (Filipino Veterans’ Benefits)                        Lum v. Rice (U.S. Supreme Court, 1927) Brown v. Board of Education (1954)                                        Lau v. Nichols (U.S. Supreme Court, 1974)

Regents of U.C. v. Bakke (1978)                                            Plyler v. Doe (U.S. Supreme Court, 1982)

The University of Texas v. Hopwood (5 th Circuit, 1996)            1952 Immigration Act

Grutter v. Lee Bollinger ( U.S. Supreme Court, 2003)               1965 Immigration Act

Gratz v. Lee Bollinger ( U.S. Supreme Court, 2003)                 1986 Immigration Act      

John Doe v. Kamehameha Schools (9 th Circuit, 2006)             1990 Immigration Act

1996 Immigration Act                                                            1996 Welfare Reform Act

Mendez v. Westminster (U.S. District Court, 1946 & 9 th Circuit, 1947)

Last update 9/16/08