Harmon v. Tyler

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{{Infobox SCOTUS case

|Litigants=Harmon v. Tyler

|ArgueDate=March 8

|ArgueYear=1927

|DecideDate=March 14

|DecideYear=1927

|FullName=Benjamin or Ben Harmon v. Joseph W. Tyler

|USVol=273

|USPage=668

|ParallelCitations=47 S. Ct. 471; 71 L. Ed. 831; 1927 U.S. LEXIS 761

|Prior=

|Subsequent=

|Holding=A New Orleans, Louisiana ordinance requiring residential segregation based on race violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

|PerCuriam=yes

|LawsApplied=U.S. Const. amend. XIV

}}

Harmon v. Tyler, 273 U.S. 668 (1927), was a unanimous United States Supreme Court decision addressing racial segregation in residential areas. The Court held that a New Orleans, Louisiana ordinance requiring residential segregation based on race violated the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court relied on the authority of Buchanan v. Warley.Casner, A.J. et al. Cases and Text on Property. Aspen Publishers, New York, NY: 2004, p. 788