The following information is necessary to assist us in processing your complaint. Author and Professor Christopher Schmidt reviews the history of critical Supreme Court civil rights and equality cases that everyone should know.The following decisions show how the high court has wrestled with some of history's biggest social, legal, and political issues. But in the 1950s and 1960s, a change came. Affiliate of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. In three cases the Supreme Court made some mention of Sec. The Supreme Court held that liability under the Unruh Civil Rights Act, Cal. Civ. Code 51, was not available in this case. The Supreme Court held that liability under the Unruh Civil Rights Act, Cal. Civ. Code 51, was not available in this case.