The Equal Protection of the Law Clause of the 14th Amendment

Fernando versus the state of texas was argued before the united states supreme court on january eleventh, 19 54. The team's strategy was twofold. They would establish that mexican jurors, specifically those with spanish surnames, were being systematically excluded from juries in jackson county, texas. And they would also establish that the exclusion from jury service was part of an overall pattern of crimination against mexican americans.