Board of Education, which held that segregation violates
the Fourteenth
Amendment. But that applies only to
the states. It was Bolling v. Sharpe (1954), about segregation in D.C. schools, that found discrimination by the federal government to be a violation of the Bill of Rights. Any federal discrimination suit—for example, this year’s case about the Defense of Marriage Act—descends from Bolling.
Decided in 1984, Strickland v.