Hurd v. Hodge

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.

Hurd v. Hodge, 334 U.S. 24 (1948), was a companion case to Shelley v. Kraemer, 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. Hurd v. Hodge also involved racially restrictive covenants on houses in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C..^[1]

However, the Equal Protection Clause does not explicitly apply to a U.S. territory not in a U.S. state, and so the decision varied from the Fourteenth Amendment ruling in Shelley v. Kraemer. In Hurd, the Court found against the segregationists by holding that both the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and treating persons in the District of Columbia like those in the states would forbid restrictive covenants.

See also[]

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

References[]

External links[]

• Works related to Hurd v. Hodge at Wikisource
• Text of Hurd v. Hodge, 334 U.S. 24 (1948) is available from: CourtListener  Justia  Library of Congress 

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