Hurd v. Hodge

Hurd v. Hodge, 334 U.S. 24 (1948), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a federal court from enforcing restrictive covenants that would prohibit a person from owning or occupying property based on race or color. A companion case to Shelley v. Kraemer, Hurd v. Hodge involved racially restrictive covenants on houses in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C..[1]

Hurd v. Hodge
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 15–16, 1948 Decided May 3, 1948
Full case name	Hurd et al. v. Hodge et al., Urciolo et al. v. Same
Citations	334 U.S. 24 (more) 68 S. Ct. 847; 92 L. Ed. 2d 1187
Holding
The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a federal court from enforcing restrictive covenants that would prohibit a person from owning or occupying property based on race or color.
Court membership
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Frank Murphy · Robert H. Jackson Wiley B. Rutledge · Harold H. Burton
Case opinions
Majority	Vinson, joined by Black, Douglas, Murphy, Burton
Concurrence	Frankfurter
Reed, Jackson and Rutledge took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.

See also

• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 334
• Shelley v. Kraemer (1948), a companion case to Hurd v. Hodge

References

1. Hurd v. Hodge, 334 U.S. 24 (1948).

External links

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